Dynamics of Economic Well-Being
Personal or household income is generally regarded as the single best
measure of the degree to which people are "well off." But other factors
also contribute to people’s well-being.
Extended measures of well-being gauge how people are faring at the household
level. Included are possession of consumer durables, housing and
neighborhood conditions, and the meeting of basic needs.
Indicators of children’s well-being are used to take a closer account of how
well children progress to adulthood and include measures of cognitive
development, social interactions, health, and successful completion of
school.
SURVEY OF INCOME AND PROGRAM PARTICIPATION
Program Participation
- Dynamics of Economic Well-Being:
Program Participation, Who Gets Assistance?, 1993 to 1994 (P70-69)
- Dynamics of Economic
Well-Being: Program Participation, Who Gets Assistance?, 1992 to 1993 (P70-58)
- Dynamics of Economic
Well-Being: Program Participation, 1991 to 1993 (P70-46)
Poverty
- Dynamics of Economic Well-Being: Poverty, 1996
to 1999 (P70-91)
- Dynamics of Economic Well-Being, Poverty 1993-94:
Trap Door? Revolving Door? Or Both? (P70-63)
- Dynamics of Economic Well-Being: Poverty, 1992-1993
Who Stays Poor? Who Doesn’t? (P70-55)
- Dynamics of Economic Well-Being: Poverty, 1991
to 1993
Children’s Well-Being
- SIPP, 2004 Panel
- SIPP, 2001 Panel (Data collected in 2003)
- SIPP, 1996 Panels (Data collected in 1998 and 2000)
- SIPP, 1992 and 1993 Panels (Data collected in 1994)
- Report - A Child’s Day:
Home, School, and Play (Selected Indicators of Child Well-Being): Fall
1994 (P70-68) [PDF 243k]
Extended Measures of Well-Being
- SIPP, 2001
- Report - Extended Measures of Well-Being: Living Conditions in the United States, 2003 (P70-110) [PDF 486k]
- Detailed Tables
- SIPP, 1996 Panel, Wave 8 (Data collected in 1998)
- Report - Extended Measures of
Well-Being: Living Conditions in the United States: 1998 (P70-87) [PDF 520k]
- Detailed Tables (PPL-170)
- SIPP, 1993 Panel, Wave 9 (Data collected in 1995)
- SIPP, 1991 and 1992 Panels
- SIPP, 1984 Panel
Other SIPP Reports
- SIPP, 1996 Panel, Wave 8 (Data collected in 1998)
- Report - Supplemental Measures
of Material Well-Being: Basic Needs, Consumer Durables, Energy, and Poverty, 1981-2002 (P23-202) [PDF 733k]
- Report - Supplemental Measures
of Material Well-Being: Expenditures, Consumption, and Poverty 1998 and
2001 (P23-201) [PDF 181k]
- Press
Release/Product Announcements
General information about the SIPP is provided on the Survey of Income and Program
Participation (SIPP) page.
Other Reports
Working Papers
- Population Division Working Paper No. 46 - The Effect of Work and
Welfare on Living Conditions in Single Parent Households, by Kurt J.
Bauman, Issued August 2000
HTML version (108k) | PDF version (185k)
- Population Division Working Paper No. 42 - Measures of Help Available
to Households in Need: Their Relation to Well-being, Welfare, and Work, by
Kurt J. Bauman and Barbara A. Downs, Issued May 2000
HTML version (93k) | PDF version (90k)
- Population
Division Working Paper No. 30 - Direct Measures of Poverty as Indicators
of Economic Need: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation,
by Kurt J. Bauman, Issued November 1998 (59k)
- Population
Division Working Paper No. 24 - Child Well-Being Indicators From the SIPP,
by Kristin E. Smith, Loretta E. Bass, and Jason M. Fields, Issued April 1998
(8k)
- Population Division
Working Paper No. 23 - Poverty, Family Structure, and Child Well-Being:
Indicators from the SIPP, by Jason M. Fields and Kristin E. Smith, Issued
April 1998 (71k)
- SIPP Working Paper 228 - Developing Extended Measures of Well-Being - Minimum Income and Subjective
Income Assessments, by Robert Kominski and Kathleen Short, Issued August 1996
[PDF]
Previous publications are also available in the Product Catalog.
Data Availability
Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) data are available from
1984 to present as CD-ROMS or as Magnetic Tape Reels or Cartridges. You may
order any of these products through CenStore by clicking on the specific
product you wish to order.
Data on extended measures of well-being from the 1991-1993 panels can be
downloaded through the "surveys on call"
facility.
Questionnaire
Related topics:
For Further Information:
On Extended Measure of Well-Being, contact:
The Education and Social Stratification Branch, U.S. Census Bureau,
301-763-2464.
On Children’s Well-Being, contact:
The Fertility and Family Statistics Branch, U.S. Census Bureau,
301-763-2416.
[PDF] or
denotes a file in Adobe’s Portable Document Format.
To view the file, you will need the
Adobe® Acrobat® Reader
available free from Adobe.