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Activity Number:
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74
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 12, 2002 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Survey Research Methods*
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| Abstract - #301506 |
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Title:
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Using Administrative Earnings Records to Assess Wage Data Quality in the March Current Population Survey (CPS) and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)
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Author(s):
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Marc Roemer*+
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Affiliation(s):
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U.S. Census Bureau
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Address:
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Room 2138-3 Mailstop 8400, Washington, District of Columbia, 20233-8400, USA
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Keywords:
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data quality ; wages ; administrative data
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Abstract:
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The March Current Population Survey (CPS) and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) typically produce different distributions of annual wages. An excess of high wages and shortage of low wages occurs in the March CPS. SIPP shows the opposite, an excess of low wages and shortage of high wages. Exactly-matched Detailed Earnings Records (DER) from the Social Security Administration allow comparing March CPS and SIPP using wage data independent of the surveys. This paper assesses the accuracy of the wage data in the surveys, and determines whether sample bias, changes in data collection instruments, or characteristics of sampled people cause the distributions to differ.
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