Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)

Internal users can access the programs and data in a UNIX shell at /homes/data/sipp, or on an NBER PC at Network Neighborhood --> NBER --> home --> data --> sipp To download files in Internet Explorer, right click on them and select "Save Target As...". Each file has thousands of lines.

Updates and changes.

Getting Started with the SIPP

• User's Guide 3rd Edition, 2001 -- Get started here.
• User's Guide, 1987
• User's Guide, 1985
• Guidance for Data Users
• SIPP Quality Profile, 3rd Ed. -- "Summarizes what is known about the sources and magnitudes of errors in estimates based on SIPP data"
• SIPP Bibliography -- "The most comprehensive, on-line resource of published and unpublished documents that include data derived from SIPP and methodological analyses."
• SIPP Content Listings
• Working papers -- "Provides information about methodological aspects of the survey as well as analyses of SIPP data"

(quotes are from the SIPP Users' Guide)

Data ; SAS, SPSS, Stata Code ; Data Dictionaries ; Technical Documentation

• TM=Topical Module
• TMR=Topical Module Research ( see the usernote regarding Research files )
• FP=Full Panel/Longitudnal
• PLC=Panel Longitudnal Core ( The 1996 Panel Longitudnal Core files are BLS cleaned and edited versions of the Core files. So use PLC files rather then Core files. They replace the Full Panel files created for earlier panel years ).
• RT=Core (Rectangular) and Topical Module
• IB=Information "Booklet" (1989-1991 file is 570 pages, 27Mb).
• RW=Replicate Weight
• orig=Some waves have multiple topical modules. BLS released each topic when it was ready as 'x', 'y', 'z' files. Later, BLS re-released the files in a single topical module file when all were ready.