Estimates of household expenditures directly obtained from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) and … household final consumption expenditures from national accounts have discrepancies, with their divergence generally growing … accounts and survey-based estimates of household expenditure. Further, it also encourages the conduct of other data collection …

This paper presents an approach to reconciling household surveys and national accounts data. The problem is how to use … the information provided by the national accounts data to re-estimate the household weights used in the survey so that the … entropy measure of information. The survey household weights are treated as a prior. New weights are estimated that are close …