Reasons People Do Not Work: 2004 (PDF) uses Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) data to fill in gaps in our knowledge about nonworkers.

The report is number P70-111 in the Current Population Reports series from the Census Bureau.

SIPP 2004 Panel just released the Wave 3 Core data files which are now available on SodaPop and PopNet.

Extended Measures of Well-Being: Living Conditions in the United States, 2003 (PDF) takes a new approach to measuring living conditions by using measures of well-being such instead of income from households participating in the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).

The report is number P70-110 in the Current Population Reports series.

A Child’s Day: 2003 (PDF) reports findings on children’s well-being and daily activities from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). The report is part of the Census Bureau’s Current Population Reports series. Topics addressed include education, eating with parents, praise from parents, child care, sports participation, and National School Lunch Program participation.

According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, a spending proposal in Congress includes an increase for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), reversing recent declines in research funding. The proposal would eliminate earmarks for the Department of Agriculture’s Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES), but would keep that money within the agency. The proposal also includes funding for the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), which was eliminated in President Bush’s budget plan for 2007.

The Chronicle article is available online to subscribers. PRI affiliates can read the Chronicle in the PRI Library or request online access from library@pop.psu.edu.

House Joint Resolution 20 is available online (PDF).

Two new reports from the Census Bureau’s Household Economic Studies series, based on SIPP data:

• Dynamics of Economic Well-Being: Participation in Government Programs, 2001 Through 2003 Who Gets Assistance? (Current Population Reports P70-108, October 2006) (PDF)
• A Child’s Day: 2003 (Selected Indicators of Child Well-Being) (Current Population Reports P70-109, January 2007) (PDF)

Comparing Federal Government Surveys that Count Uninsured People in America (PDF), a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, compares data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), and Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). Despite their differences, all of these surveys show large and increasing numbers of uninsured Americans.

This ERS publication, from the USDA, profiles participants in the NSLP. The data was collected from the 2001 SIPP and the 1999-2002 NHANES.

The Employment and Disability Institute at Cornell University has published guides to disability statistics for several major datasets (all available in PDF format):

• Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)
• Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
• National Health Interview Study (NHIS)
• National Health Interview Study (NHIS) Disability Supplement
• 2000 Decennial Census
• American Community Survey (ACS)

The SIPP 2004 Panel Wave 1 Core and Recipiency History Topical Module data, data dictionary and SAS input are now available in the PRI SIPP PopNet UNIX Collection. The files will likely be added to SodaPop in the near future.