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Survey of Income and Program Participation Data on Children

The Survey of Income and Program Participation is a longitudinal panel survey of demographic information, income, labor force characteristics, and program participation in the United States with supplemental topical modules including questions on topics such as child well being, child care and detailed household relationships.

Data about children are available at the national level from 1991 to the present.

For additional information about SIPP, visit the SIPP Web site.


DATA TABLES, PRODUCTS AND REPORTS

LIVING ARRANGEMENTS OF CHILDREN

Living Arrangements of Children: 2009 (P70-126)

Living Arrangements of Children: Fall 2004 (2004 SIPP Wave 2 - P70-114)

Living Arrangements of Children: Fall 2001 (2001 SIPP Wave 2 - P70-104)

Living Arrangements of Children: Fall 1996 (1996 SIPP Wave 2 - P70-74)

Diverse Living Arrangements of Children: 1991 (1991 SIPP Wave 2 - P70-38)


CHILDREN'S WELL-BEING

A Child's Day: 2009 (Selected Indicators of Child Well-Being) (2008 SIPP Panel, Wave 4)

A Child's Day: 2006 (Selected Indicators of Child Well-Being) (2004 SIPP Panel, Wave 8)

A Child's Day: 2004 (Selected Indicators of Child Well-Being) (2004 SIPP Panel)

A Child's Day: 2003 (Selected Indicators of Child Well-Being) (2001 SIPP Panel 1 - P70-109)

A Child's Day: 2000 (Selected Indicators of Child Well-Being) (1996 SIPP Panel 2 - P70-89)

A Child's Day: Home, School and Play (Selected Indicators of Child Well-Being) (1992 and 1993 SIPP Panel 3 - P70-68)

For additional information about extended measures of well-being, which gauge how people are faring at the household level, please see the Well-Being website.


RELATED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Creation of a Child Well-Being Index Using the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Carolyn Hronis. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, San Francisco, CA May 3-5, 2012.

Instability and its Relationship to Child Well-Being: 2003. Jane Lawler Dye and Annette Rogers. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, CA, March 31 to April 1, 2006.

Children's Coresidence with Half Siblings. Rose M. Kreider and Jason M. Fields. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Dallas, TX, April 15-17, 2010

Children's Religious Attendance and Child Well-Being. Jane L. Dye. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Boston, MA, August 1-4, 2008

1 Data collected in 2003.
2 Data collected in 1998 and 2000.
3 Data collected in 1994.

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Source: U.S. Census Bureau | Children |  Last Revised: July 27, 2012