Abstract #300859

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JSM 2003 Abstract #300859
Activity Number: 360
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 6, 2003 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Government Statistics
Abstract - #300859
Title: Improving Quality in the Collection of Earnings: The 2004 SIPP
Author(s): Nancy A. Bates*+ and Aniekan Okon
Companies: U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau
Address: 649 A St., NE, Washington, DC, 20002-6029,
Keywords: labor force data ; reporting options ; nonresponse ; earnings
Abstract:

In an attempt to reduce respondent burden and item nonresponse, the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) will implement new procedures to collect earnings from work activities in the 2004 Panel. In previous SIPP instruments, the primary method of reporting employer earnings is in monthly amounts; when gathering business earnings, monthly is the only option allowed. The 2004 Panel allows respondents a choice in reporting earnings from businesses and employers. Prior to a battery of questions about earned income amounts, interviewers probe respondents for their preferred time period of reporting earnings, e.g., annually, hourly, bi-weekly/bi-monthly, monthly, or quarterly. The new SIPP instrument also adds probes in the earnings section aimed at reducing item nonresponse. We compare and contrast results from the 2001 and 2002 SIPP Methods Panel, which tested two different approaches to identifying and categorizing work activities coupled with the new collection methodology for earnings. We discuss how the new methods impacted data quality of SIPP earnings by examining mean and median earnings reported as well as item-level measures of nonresponse.

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