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Wave 2 Survey of Income and Program Participation - 2008 Panel: Core

Metadata Updated: September 30, 2025

SIPP is a nationally representative longitudinal survey that provides comprehensive data about the income and government program participation of individuals and households in the United States. These microdata contain demographic and social characteristic information for each sample member, as well as detailed data on labor force activity, types and amounts of income, and participation in various cash and noncash benefit programs. Questions about these topics were repeated for 16 interviews. Each interview covered a four-month period, with the first interview covering September 2008 to December 2008.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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References

https://www.census.gov/developers/

Dates

Metadata Created Date September 30, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 30, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from Commerce Non Spatial Data.json Harvest Source

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date September 30, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 30, 2025
Publisher U.S. Census Bureau
Maintainer
Identifier https://api.census.gov/data/id/SIPP2008COREV2
Data Last Modified 2022-12-05 00:00:00.0
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 006:07
C Dataset "sipp", "core", "2008panel", "wave2"
C Documentationlink https://www.census.gov/developer/
C Exampleslink http://api.census.gov/data/2008/sipp/core/2008panel/wave2/examples.json
C Geographylink http://api.census.gov/data/2008/sipp/core/2008panel/wave2/geography.json
C Groupslink http://api.census.gov/data/2008/sipp/core/2008panel/wave2/groups.json
C Isavailable True
C Iscube True
C Ismicrodata True
C Sorts Url http://api.census.gov/data/2008/sipp/core/2008panel/wave2/sorts.json
C Tagslink http://api.census.gov/data/2008/sipp/core/2008panel/wave2/tags.json
C Variableslink http://api.census.gov/data/2008/sipp/core/2008panel/wave2/variables.json
C Vintage 2008
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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Harvest Source Id bce99b55-29c1-47be-b214-b8e71e9180b1
Harvest Source Title Commerce Non Spatial Data.json Harvest Source
License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Old Spatial United States
Program Code 006:004
Publisher Hierarchy U.S. Government > U.S. Department Of Commerce > U.S. Census Bureau
Related Documents https://www.census.gov/developers/
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash e86a208d6bff66728ef311b7e0f28ef5e3de00d04c20ff740389b208be5972a6
Source Schema Version 1.1
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Temporal 2008/2008

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