Priorities for Improving Data on Income and Well-being from Survey and Administrative Records: A Role for SIPP

Issue title: The Future of the Survey of Income and Program Participation

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Smeeding, Timothy M.^a

Affiliations: [a] Metropolitan Studies Program, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University

Abstract: This paper presents alternative foci and suggestions for improved data on income and well-being from the SIPP. It includes recommendations for several minor changes and also for a larger scale reorganization which would make SIPP ideally suited to serve as a basis for measuring poverty and welfare dependency in America.

DOI: 10.3233/JEM-1992-181-417

Journal: Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, vol. 18, no. 1-4, pp. 335-373, 1992