What We Offer
- Tabulating and Analysis Software for the American Community Survey (ACS)
- Forecasts of Household Income and Demographics to 2030
- Estimates of Household Discretionary Income
- Custom tabulations from the March CPS and the ACS
- Custom Software for Tabulating Sample Survey Microdata
- Imputation for Missing Survey Reponses and Statistical Matching Software
- Simulation of Program Eligibility such as for the National Health (Medicare Part D)
- Software for Assigning Weights to Sample Survey Observations
- Programming Services in SPSS, Stata, Java, and C++
- Database Services in Oracle and MySQL
- Implementation of Disclosure Advoidance for Microdata Files
Company Background
- Developed ground breaking tabulating software for analysis of the American Community Survey data
- Formulated forecasting techniques for projecting household income and demographic characteristics
- More than 30 years of experience with survey design, data processing, and analysis of household income statistics including heading up the Bureau of the Census income statistics division
- Pioneered the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates program at the Bureau of the Census
- Helped to establish the Luxembourg Income Study, a project that now maintains an extensive database of household surveys covering income and demographic data for 29 countries
- Developed the tax simulation programs now used as the template for the Bureau of the Census tax models
- Sentier Research established in 1997
Our Clients
- The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- EuroStat
- Social Security Administration
- The Urban Institute
- The Brookings Institution
- The American Enterprise Institute
- Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Public Policy
- The Luxembourg Income Study
- National Council on Aging
- United States Bureau of the Census
- The University of Maryland School of Public Policy
- The Institute for Research on Poverty
- The Conference Board, Consumer Research Center
- CNN Money
- Bloomberg News
- Imagitas
- Cable Television Advertising Bureau