TRIM3 Documentation

Simulated Transfer, Tax, and Health Insurance Programs

• General Information:

  • Steps in Simulating Tax and Transfer Programs
  • Eligibility of Non-Citizens
  
  
  

• Transfer Programs:

  • Supplemental Security Income
  • Child Care
  • Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
  • Public and Subsidized Housing
  • The Food Stamp Program
  • Child Support
  
  
  

• Tax Programs:

  • Payroll Taxes
  • Federal Income Taxes
  • State Income Taxes
  
  
  

• Health Insurance Programs:

  • Medicare
  • Medicaid and SCHIP
  • Employer Sponsored Health Insurance

Simulation-Based Analysis Tools

• Poverty

TRIM3 Input Data: Concepts and Procedures

• Modifications to the Underlying Surveys
• Understanding Family Relationships
• Using Health Insurance Coverage Variables
• Using Income Variables
• Using Race Variables
• Matching TRIM Records to March CPS Records
• Matching Records from Consecutive Months or Years of CPS Surveys

TRIM3 Input Data: Annual Updates

• Development and Annual Updates
• CPS Conversion Memoranda
• March 1996 CPS (Word format)
• March 1997 CPS (Word format)
• March 1998 CPS
• March 1999 CPS (Word format)
• March 2000 CPS (Word format)
• 2001 ASEC (Word format)
• 2002 ASEC (Word format)
• 2003 ASEC (Word format)
• 2004 ASEC (Word format)
• 2005 ASEC (Word format)
• Corrections and Adjustments
• 2005 ASEC (2004 Input): Corrected Weights and Health Insurance Variables