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Title
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Room
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* ! Measuring Poverty: The Survey of Income and Program Participation
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H-Grand Ballroom C
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Date / Time
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Sponsor
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Type
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08/07/2001
2:00 PM
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3:50 PM
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Social Statistics Section*, Section on Government Statistics*, Section on Survey Research Methods*
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Topic Contributed
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Organizer:
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Kathleen Short, U.S. Census Bureau
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Chair:
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Connie Citro, Committee on National Statistics
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Discussant:
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3:25 PM - Patricia Ruggles,
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Floor Discussion
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3:40 PM
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Description
In 1995, a National Academy of Sciences panel recommended that official measures of poverty should be based on data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). Led by an interagency committee, the Census Bureau has developed an array of experimental poverty measures based on the Current Population Survey data. As a result of the release of these measures, and subsequent discussion and comment, additional research is underway to extend these measures to the SIPP. Authors will discuss relevant issues and the research that addresses them, and outline plans for additional research and data collection for the longer term.
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