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The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)

• SIPP covers an extensive set of disability questions
• The SIPP disability questions cover
• limitations in functional activities - seeing, hearing, speaking, lifting, and carrying, using stairs, walking
• activities of daily living (ADLs) - getting around inside the home, getting in/out of a bed/chair, bathing, dressing, eating, toileting
• instrumental actvities of daily living (IADLs) - going outside the home, keeping track of money or bills, preparing meals, doing light housework, using the telephone
• use of wheelchairs, crutches, canes, or walkers
• presence of conditions related to mental functioning
• presence of a work disability
• disability status of children
• The major drawback to the SIPP as a disability data source is the relatively small sample size of the survey.
• In general, the SIPP cannot provide reliable estimates below the regional level, however, the 2004 SIPP panel will allow estimates for select states and metropolitan areas
• SIPP Disability Questionnaire
• SIPP background
• Survey of Income and Program Participation page