Declining response rates to surveys is a widespread and troubling problem. Unit non-response (when a household is not interviewed at all) has been rising in most surveys. For example, unit non-response rates rose by 3-12 percentage points over the 1990s for six U.S. Census Bureau surveys (Atrostic et al. 2001). Many recent papers have raised the concern that this increased non-response has led ...

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We are requesting the approval of the Census Disclosure Review Board (DRB) for the release of the SIPP Synthetic Beta (SSB) v5.1, produced by the Survey Improvement Research Branch (SIRB) of the Census Bureau’s Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division. This data product is an update to the previously released SSB v5.0. In this memo we provide a brief review of the creation of the SSB a...