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Abstract:
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The Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) program of the U.S. Census Bureau is charged with producing poverty estimates for school-age children for all Title I school districts in the U.S. The program has been producing estimates for more than twenty years, and has undergone extensive processes of evaluation and review. Current research and data availability has driven a shift in the needs and feasibility of such evaluation processes, however. This paper will provide an overview of past evaluation techniques for the program, and ongoing research for using simulation-based methods. Brief results will be presented, focusing on model comparisons for sub-county poverty estimates.
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