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Action Alert . . . .
Bush Administration decides the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is important after all but has boxed itself in regarding being able to fully fund this crucial data source in Fiscal Year 2008. See May 31, 2007, New York Times editorial and June 4 Washington Post article. (6/4/07)
Save the Survey of Income and Program Participation! (2/27/06, 3/7/06)
Social scientists who use the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), a U.S. Census Bureau data set, in their own research, who rely on research by others, or have students who use it, are encouraged to sign a letter that will be delivered to the U.S. Congress. A separate letter from organizations and associations is being developed. The purpose of these letters, being circulated by the Center for Economic and Policy Research is to save the SIPP, since President Bush's proposed budget for Fiscal 2007 eliminates it. Sociologists have used the SIPP for many years for research on poverty, welfare, Medicaid & Medicare and other health insurance, child support, unemployment insurance, the low wage labor market, savings and assets such as home ownership, the movement of women in and out of the labor market across their life times, and so on. The new panel of the SIPP, which began in 2004, is a very detailed longitudinal data set, consisting of interviews of the same families three times each year, usually for about three years. Join with other social scientists and researchers to save this important national resource.
If you would like to sign on to either letter, visit the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). If you would be willing to be a media spokesperson in your state on this issue, please also indicate that in your email. You are encouraged to pass on this information. If you have questions, contact Heather Boushey. HURRY! Researchers who use the SIPP data, please contact Roberta Spalter-Roth at spalter-roth@asanet.org.
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