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Abstract #302186

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Activity Number: 76
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 9, 2004 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #302186
Title: Earned Income and Longitudinal Attrition in the SIPP and SPD
Author(s): David W. Hall*+ and Smanchai Sae-Ung and Jan Tin
Companies: U.S. Census Bureau and U. S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau
Address: 4700 Silver Hill Rd., Room 3725-3, Suitland, MD, 20747,
Keywords: longitudinal survey ; nonresponse ; attrition bias ; earned income ; survey data quality ; weighting
Abstract:

Longitudinal surveys, like the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD), experience growing attrition over the life of a survey panel. With each attriter, we lose information on variables such as earned income, which is commonly regarded as an important characteristic that is indicative of the socioeconomic well being of an individual and his/her family. We conduct a statistical evaluation of the longitudinal difference in earned incomes between the attriters and the continuers in the SPD and the 1996 SIPP panel surveys using Social Security Administration (SSA) earnings records. We also analyze the difference between the earned income data collected from each survey and those from SSA earnings records.

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