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Activity Number: 556
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 4, 2010 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Social Statistics Section
Abstract - #306321
Title: Imputation Variance Estimation Protocols for the NAS Poverty Measure: The New York City Poverty Measure Experience
Author(s): Frank Potter*+ and Eric Grau and John Czajka and Mark Levitan
Companies: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. and Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. and Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. and NYC Center for Economic Opportunity
Address: P.O. Box 2393, Princeton, NJ, 08543,
Keywords: Measurement of Poverty ; Imputation Variance ; ACS
Abstract:

The recommendations of a National Academy of Sciences panel in 1995 bring new resources and expenditures components into poverty measurement. The Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO) of New York City developed a new poverty measure for the city based on the recommendations. The new measure uses data from the American Community Survey (ACS) with simulations based on federal, state and city tax laws; estimates of expenditures using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP); and statistical matching to survey and administrative data bases. This paper presents methods used to account for the ACS sampling error and variance components associated with imputations for the CEO poverty measure derived from the MEPS and SIPP, and the statistical matching. The variance estimates are partitioned into the contribution of each component.


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