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An evaluation of the quality of the retirement income data in the 2010 CPS ASEC, comparing it to IRS 1099-R forms filed with tax returns in the tax year 2009.
The paper addresses the lack of diversity in the opt-out discussion by comparing the prevalence of options among Asian, Black, Hispanic and White mothers.
One component of the Demographic analysis estimates is net international migration, which represents the movement of people who change their residence.
This evaluation compares the Armed Forces content on the Survey of Income and Program Participation 2011 test with SIPP 2008 and the American Community Survey.
This paper uses 1960-2000 Census and 2010 ACS data to describe changes in the size, origins, and geographic distribution of the foreign-born population.
The purpose of this paper is to provide data users with additional information about the Migration Supplement that is not found in other published sources.
This report evaluates the 2010 ACS Content Test to simplify the period of military service question and to improve the quality of the data for this topic.
This report evaluates the 2010 ACS Content Test to simplify the veteran identification question and generate more reliable and accurate estimates of veterans.
Examines whether those employed/formerly employed in occupations that were hard‐hit by the recession were more likely to have employed partners after recession.
Focus on the use of vital statistics in Demographic Analysis including, the use of vital statistics data, the use of birth records, and how race is reported.
This paper examines the population projected to speak a language other than English in 2020, with a focus on the methodology used to produce these projections.
To evaluate the quality of new 2010 ASEC mortgage questions, this paper compares similar data collected in ACS and AHS by a number of selected characteristics.
Current Population Survey’s (CPS) Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) supplement added new questions to aid in developing Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM)
This paper reports on the home ownership status of a housing unit (tenure) and the length of time that people stay in one place (residential duration).
This analysis investigates how Post 9/11 women veterans are different from their predecessors, in terms of their post-military social and economic outcomes.
This report is one in a series that compares data from the ACS with data from the ASEC to the CPS. It focuses on national and state veteran statistics.
This report is one in a series that compares data from the American Community Survey (ACS) with data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC).
The report focuses on comparisons of national distributions of citizenship status, year of entry, and place of birth between the 2004 ACS and the 2004 ASEC.
The purpose of this paper is to explain an important adjustment to the health insurance edit process that assigns private coverage to non-policy holders.
Report focuses on several common measures of inequality using household income data from the American Community Survey (ACS) for the years 2000 through 2005.
Explores how an alternative imputation strategy compares to the present strategy used to impute assets and liabilities in the SIPP Wealth Topical Module.
Compares results from Census 2000 to results from the American Community Survey for characteristics such as nativity, place of birth, language, and ancestry.
This paper explores whether the format of the Hispanic origin question influenced respondents to provide general instead of specific national-origin responses.
Compares results from Census 2000 to results from the American Community Survey for characteristics such as nativity, place of birth, language, and ancestry.
This working paper presents historical decennial census data on population totals by race and by Hispanic origin for large cities in the United States.
This paper examines the characteristics of persons who reported SCHIP coverage in the March 2001 CPS, and compares CPS estimates with administrative figures.
This analysis uses data from the Census 2000 Supplementary Survey to examine change in language use and English ability of school-aged children since 1990.
This paper provides a detailed discussion of the definitions, methodologies, assumptions, and data sources used to measure net international migration.
This report focuses on the evaluation of estimated residual foreign-born population (including unauthorized & quasi-legal migrants) in 1990 and 2000 (DAPE).
This report focuses on the evaluation of the U.S. Census Bureau’s estimate of legal immigration to the United States between 1980-1990 and 1990-2000 (DAPE).
This report focuses on the evaluation of the Census Bureau’s estimate of net migration between Puerto Rico and the United States in the 1980s and 1990s (DAPE).
This report presents social, demographic and geographic characteristics of households that engage in home schooling and examines the potential for growth.
This report attempts to control for the effect of changes over time in the size and composition of households by adopting a modified measure of income.
This working paper discusses the methodology and assumptions used to develop the recently released projections of the population of US from 1999 to 2100.
Paper outlines differences in income estimates from the American Community Survey and the 1990 Census and provides a preliminary overview of the ACS results.
Examines the items on relationship-to-householder, grandparents-as-caregivers, and marital status using the current version of the Census Unedited File (CUF).
Test determined the effects of allowing respondents to report more than one race in a self-identification context and assessed the utility of these data.
This paper examines the quality of the fertility data among men and women and the characteristics of the men who did not respond to the question on fertility.
In this study, a cohort survival method is supplemented by State Department U.S. citizen registration data to estimate the annual rate of U.S. born emigration.
This paper discusses current methods of assigning geographic codes to the Federal individual income tax returns and test results of potential new methods.
This paper compares the distribution of Food Stamp Program participants on selected variables obtained from SIPP and from a survey of administrative records.