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Privacy Protection and Accuracy : What Do We Know? Do We Know Things?? Let's Find Out!
Totty, Evan S.; Watson, Thor - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Statistical agencies have a dual mandate to provide accurate data and protect the privacy and confidentiality of data subjects. These mandates are fundamentally at odds and therefore must be balanced: more accurate data reduces privacy, while privacy protections introduce error that reduces...
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The Complexities of Differential Privacy for Survey Data
Drechsler, Jörg; Bailie, James - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
; the implications of survey-weighted estimates; the weighting adjustments for nonresponse and other data deficiencies, and …
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Exhaustive or Exhausting? Evidence on Respondent Fatigue in Long Surveys
Jeong, Dahyeon; Aggarwal, Shilpa; Robinson, Jonathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Living standards measurement surveys require sustained attention for several hours. We quantify survey fatigue by randomizing the order of questions in 2-3 hour-long in-person surveys. An additional hour of survey time increases the probability that a respondent skips a question by 10-64%....
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Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts : Aggregate vs. Aggregated Inflation Expectations
Dietrich, Alexander M.; Knotek, Edward S.; Myrseth, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper introduces a novel measure of consumer inflation expectations: We elicit and combine inflation forecasts across categories of personal consumption expenditure to form an aggregated measure of inflation expectations. Drawing on nearly 60,000 respondents, our data comprise the early...
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Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being
Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Analyses of self-reported-well-being (SWB) survey data may be confounded if people use response scales differently. We use calibration questions, designed to have the same objective answer across respondents, to measure dimensional (i.e., specific to an SWB dimension) and general (i.e., common...
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Assessing Nonresponse Bias in Macro Indicators by Combining Para-, Administrative, and Survey Data
Heffetz, Ori; Lichtinger, Guy; Reeves, Daniel B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
rates and the consequent risk of nonresponse bias. How can we assess nonresponse bias in these key economic aggregates? … of contact attempts and nonresponse reason, we create respondent and nonrespondent subcategories. Second, using rarely …We demonstrate that our method can help assess nonresponse bias in surveys lacking matched administrative records …
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Surveying Business Uncertainty
Altig, David - 2019
collection, we develop and field a new monthly panel Survey of Business Uncertainty. The SBU began in 2014 and now covers about 1 …
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Difficulty to Reach Respondents and Nonresponse Bias : Evidence from Large Government Surveys
Heffetz, Ori - 2016
by interviewers. A challenge to the (conditionally-)random-nonresponse assumption, these findings empirically …
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What Drives Aggregate Investment? Evidence from German Survey Data
Bachmann, Ruediger - 2013
The ifo Investment Survey asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of sales, technological factors, finance, return expectations, and macroeconomic policy for their investment activity in a given year. We show that these subjective investment determinants 1) capture...
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Inequality Within Countries is Falling : Underreporting-Robust Estimates of World Poverty, Inequality and the Global Distribution of Income
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Household surveys suffer from persistent and growing underreporting. We propose a novel procedure to adjust reported survey incomes for underreporting by estimating a model of misreporting whose main parameter of interest is the elasticity of regional national accounts income to regional survey...
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