| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w25143 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 25143 |
| Errors in Survey Reporting and Imputation and their Effects on Estimates of Food Stamp Program Participation | |
| Bruce D. Meyer; Nikolas Mittag; Robert M. Goerge | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-10-15 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Accurately measuring government benefit receipt in household surveys is necessary when studying disadvantaged populations and the programs that serve them. The Food Stamp Program is especially important given its size and recent growth. To validate survey reports, we use administrative data on participation in two states linked to the American Community Survey (ACS), the Current Population Survey (CPS), and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). We find that 23 percent of true food stamp recipient households do not report receipt in the SIPP, 35 percent in the ACS, and fully 50 percent in the CPS. A substantial number of true non-recipients are also recorded as recipients, especially in the SIPP. We examine reasons for these errors including imputation, an important source of error. Both false negative and false positive reports vary with household characteristics, implying complicated biases in multivariate analyses, such as regressions. We then directly examine biases in common survey-based estimates of program receipt by comparing them to estimates from our combined administrative and survey data. We find that the survey estimates understate participation among single parents, non-whites, and low-income households, and also lead to errors in multiple program receipt, and time and age patterns of receipt. |
| 主题 | Econometrics ; Data Collection ; Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25143 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582816 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Bruce D. Meyer,Nikolas Mittag,Robert M. Goerge. Errors in Survey Reporting and Imputation and their Effects on Estimates of Food Stamp Program Participation. 2018. |
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| w25143.pdf（469KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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