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Description & Citation--Study No. 2421

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:2421
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02421
 
Title:Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) 1993 Panel, Longitudinal File
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census
 
Series:Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) Series
 
Bibliographic Citation:U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. SURVEY OF INCOME AND PROGRAM PARTICIPATION (SIPP) 1993 PANEL, LONGITUDINAL FILE [Computer file]. ICPSR version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1997. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1998. doi:10.3886/ICPSR02421
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This data collection contains basic demographic, social, and economic data for each member of interviewed households during the ten waves of the 1993 panel of SIPP. Variables include age, sex, race, ethnic origin, marital status, household relationship, education, and veteran status. Limited data are provided on housing unit characteristics such as number of units in structure and tenure. Core questions, repeated at each interview, cover monthly labor force activity, types and amounts of monthly income, and participation in various cash and noncash benefit programs for each month of the survey period. Data for employed persons include number of hours and weeks worked, earnings, and weeks without a job. Nonworkers are classified as unemployed or not in the labor force. In addition to income data associated with labor force activity, nearly 50 other types of income data are provided. Several variables are included for use in identifying longitudinal households and persons in them and to aid in analysis.
 
Subject Term(s):demographic characteristics, economic conditions, families, financial assets, government programs, households, income, income distribution, labor force, participation, poverty programs, public assistance programs, unearned income, unemployment, wages and salaries, wealth, welfare services, working hours
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:February 1993 - September 1995
 
Date(s) of Collection:February 1993 - January 1996
 
Universe:The resident population of the United States, excluding persons living in institutions and military barracks.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:(1) Attachment 9 of the codebook is not included in the documentation. (2) The codebook is provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided through the ICPSR Website on the Internet.
 

Methodology

Sample:A multistage stratified sampling design was used. One-fourth of the sample households were interviewed each month, and households were reinterviewed at four-month intervals. All persons at least 15 years old who were present as household members at the time of the first interview were included for the entire study, except those who joined the military, were institutionalized for the entire study period, or moved from the United States. Original household members who moved during the study period were followed to their new residences and interviewed there. New persons moving into households of members of the original sample also were included in the survey but were not followed if they left the household of an original sample person.
 
Data Source:personal interviews
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1998-11-16
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) 1993 Panel, Longitudinal File
 

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