CWP51WORKWP131 PDF SIPP Working Paper Number 131 Form

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>> Hi, everyone, and thanks for sticking in there to this late session. I'm going to be talking to you today about model-based imputation, and use of administrative records in the SIPP. I'm here with Ruth Sarafin. We are in the Survey Improvement Research Branch in the Social, Economic and Housing Statistics Division, and our branch is responsible for all of the model-based imputation that you see in the SIPP. So for today's presentation, I'm going to give a brief overview of imputation in the SIPP, a little historical backgrounds. I'm going to cover our sources of administrative data and how we use them, and then I'm going to hand it over to Ruth, who is going to handle the nuts and bolts of our methodology and our modeling, and then at the end, talk a little bit about the future direction of imputation in the SIPP. So just as some background, there's a couple of different types of non-response in the SIPP, household, person, and item non-response. Household is basically we can't find