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The Egypt labor market panel survey : introducing the 2012 round
Asʿad, Rāǧī; Krafft, Caroline - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-30
This paper introduces the 2012 round of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS), a publicly-available nationally … questionnaires for each round. Additionally, we examine the attrition processes observed in the panel and discuss the creation of …
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Benford’s Law as an Instrument for Fraud Detection in Surveys Using the Data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
Schraepler, Joerg-Peter - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 231 (2011) 5-6, pp. 685-718
This paper focuses on fraud detection in surveys using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data as an example for testing …
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How might in-home scanner technology be used in budget surveys?
Leicester, Andrew - 2012
This paper considers what role in-home barcode scanner data could play in collecting household expenditure information as part of national budget surveys. One role is as a source of validation. We make detailed micro-level comparisons of food and drink expenditures in two British datasets: the...
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Establishments in the COVID-19-crisis (BeCovid) : a high-frequency establishment survey to monitor the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
Bellmann, Lutz; Gleiser, Patrick; Hensgen, Sophie; … - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 242 (2022) 3, pp. 421-431
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The Validity of Consumption Data: Are the Consumer Expenditure Interview and Diary Surveys Informative?
Meyer, Bruce D.; Bee, Adam; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
components of the CE--the Interview Survey and the Diary Survey--rather than a combination that has been used in past comparisons …. We find that most of the largest categories of consumption are measured well in the Interview Survey as the ratio to the … Interview Survey. We also compare the ownership of and the value of durables, such as homes and cars, in the CE to other sources …
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The Potential use of In-home Scanner Technology for Budget Surveys
Leicester, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper considers the potential role of in-home scanners as a method of data collection for national budget surveys such as the Consumer Expenditure Survey. A detailed comparison is made between scanner data and diary-based budget survey data for food at home in the UK. Levels of recorded...
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Measuring Total Household Spending in a Monthly Internet Survey: Evidence from the American Life Panel
Hurd, Michael D.; Rohwedder, Susann - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
outcomes include sample attrition, indicators of data quality such as item nonresponse and the variance in total spending, and …
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Plagiarism in Student Papers: Prevalence Estimates Using Special Techniques for Sensitive Questions
Elisabeth Coutts†; Jann, Ben; Krumpal, Ivar; Naeher, … - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 231 (2011) 5-6, pp. 749-760
This article evaluates three different questioning techniques for measuring the prevalence of plagiarism in student papers: the randomized response technique (RRT), the item count technique (ICT), and the crosswise model (CM). In three independent experimental surveys with Swiss and German...
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Interstate Migration Has Fallen Less Than You Think: Consequences of Hot Deck Imputation in the Current Population Survey
Kaplan, Greg; Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We show that much of the recent reported decrease in interstate migration is a statistical artifact. Before 2006, the Census Bureau's imputation procedure for dealing with missing data inflated the estimated interstate migration rate. An undocumented change in the procedure corrected the problem...
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Measuring skill gaps in firms: the PIAAC Employer Module
Marcolin, Luca - 2023
This paper introduces the Employer Module of the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), a new OECD survey designed to measure the imbalance between the supply of and demand for the skills needed in the workplace (skill gaps), and how this relates to companies’ business strategy and hiring,...
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