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This readme file is related to the paper "Household living arrangements and disparities in hardship"

Author: John Iceland & Jaehoon Cho

Software: Stata version 18.0

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1) Accessing the data

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The data used for this research article is the SIPP (Survey of Income and Program Participation Datasets) 2022 primary data file. The data

can be downloaded free of charge without registration or approval from the website https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sipp.html



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2) Variables

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The following variables are used:



ETENURE, THTOTINC, TPPRPINC, TPOTHINC, EAWBCRACK, EAWBGAS, EAWBHOLES, EAWBMORT, EAWBPESTS, EAWBPLUMB, EAWBSAFE, 

EAWBSTAY, EAWBTRAFF, EAWBTRASH, EBORNUS, EDISABL, EEDUC, EFOOD1, EFOOD2, EFOOD3, EFOOD4, EFOOD5, EFOOD6, EORIGIN, 

ERACE, ERELRPE, ERESIDENCEID, MONTHCODE, RFAMKIND, RFAMKINDWT2, RFAMREF, RFPERSONS, RHNUMU18, RHPOV, RMESR, 

RREGION_INTV, TAGE, TFINCPOV, TFINCPOVT2, THTOTINC, TYRENTRY, TMETRO_INTV, TMWKHRS, WPFINWGT, SHHADID, PNUM, SSUID, 

WPFINWGT, RFAMREF, ENATCIT, ECITIZEN, EHOWWELL, RTANF_YRYN, EHOUSE_ANY, RSSI_YRYN, RGA_YRYN, ESSSANY, ECRMTH, 

ESSCANY, EMDMTH, ERENTSUB, RHLTHMTH, TIMSTAT, THDEBT_AST, THINC_AST, TPAYWK, THVAL_RMU, SPANEL, SWAVE



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3) Description of the ZIP file

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The ZIP file includes 5 do-files, as listed below.



1) 00_master.do

This do-file includes the path to the dataset, and the code to run all other do-files.



2) 01_cleaning.do

This do-file includes the codes that clean the raw data to make it ready to run the analyses.



3) 02_descriptive statistics.do

This do-file includes the codes for descriptive statistics.



4) 03_regression.do

This do-file includes the codes for regression.



5) 04_decomposition.do

This do-file includes the codes for decomposition.