Some analyses involve summarizing data for units other than households or families.
For all of these programs, SIPP records for each adult and child contain coverage fields denoting whether the individual received benefits from the program in question in each month. These coverage fields allow the analyst to distinguish situations in which the program unit is a subset of the family or household unit. This estimate was derived using the monthly coverage fields for food stamps in Wave 1 of the 1984 Panel. The procedure employed by Carlson and Dalrymple involved several steps. First, persons were grouped into households, as described earlier.