The National Poverty Center has issued a call for proposals for research projects using data from the 2004 and/or 2008 SIPP panels. Proposals are due Dec. 4, 2009.

The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) 2001 weight file in SodaPop has been corrected to have 4 digit implied decimal places.

The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) 2008 Wave 1 core data is now available in SodaPop.

Penn State researchers can download SIPP data and documentation from the SodaPop web site.

PRI researchers may also access data files on our network using Windows or UNIX. Click on the “pri affiliates” tab on the SodaPop page for file locations.

All waves and topical modules for SIPP 2004 is now available To Penn State researchers on SodaPop.

SIPP has released Core Waves 7 and 8 and Topical Module Waves 1-8. PRI Researchers using this data are encouraged to look at SodaPop, PRI’s Data Archive for updated holdings.

SIPP 2004 Panel, Wave 4-6 Core data files are now available to the PSU community on SodaPop and PopNet.

Topical Modules are also available.

Maternity Leave and Employment Patterns of First-Time Mothers 1961-2003 (PDF) uses SIPP data to examine employment patterns of mothers who gave birth to a first child between 1961 and 2003. The report is part of the Census Bureau’s Current Population Reports Household Economic Studies series (P70-113).

The PRI Library has received announcement of a summer program workshop to be held July 24-25, 2008.

Living Arrangements of Children: 2004 (PDF) is the latest report in the Household Economic Studies series of the Census Bureau’s Current Population Reports (P70-114). It uses SIPP data to examine the variety of living arrangements of US children.

Parents are taking a more active role in the lives of their children than they did 10 years ago, according to data released today by the US Census Bureau. The data are from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, and detailed tables are available in A Child’s Day: 2004.