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How Survey Design Affects Inference Regarding Health Perceptions and Outcomes
Exterkate, Anneke; Lumsdaine, Robin L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper considers the role of survey design and question phrasing in evaluating the subjective health assessment responses using the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) dataset. A unique feature of this dataset is that respondents were twice asked during the survey to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223327
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Is the Consumer Expenditure Survey Representative by Income?
Sabelhaus, John; Johnson, David; Ash, Stephen; Swanson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Aggregate under-reporting of household spending in the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) can result from two fundamental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271369
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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
-reporting of income and expenditures at the top. We then examine the precision of the two surveys and the frequency of no spending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271446
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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 … food spending in a given week. The gaps are widened once demographic differences between the surveys are controlled for …. There is clear evidence that short-term diaries do not accurately capture household food spending patterns given infrequency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271461
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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
Beginning in May 2009 we fielded a monthly Internet survey designed to measure total household spending as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271479
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A Comparison of Micro and Macro Expenditure Measures Across Countries Using Differing Survey Methods
Milligan, Kevin; Barrett, Garry; Levell, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
the role of factors influencing the performance of the household surveys. First, coverage of aggregate expenditure …This paper presents a comparative assessment of the performance of the household expenditure survey programs in … and household equipment). The aggregate patterns in coverage cannot be attributed to specific expenditure components or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271498
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Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research
Hanushek, Eric; Woessmann, Ludger - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Critics of international student comparisons argue that results may be influenced by differences in the extent to which countries adequately sample their entire student populations. In this research note, we show that larger exclusion and non-response rates are related to better country average...
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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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Inaccurate age and sex data in the Census PUMS files: Evidence and Implications
Stevenson, Betsey; Alexander, J. Trent; Davern, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We discover and document errors in public use microdata samples ("PUMS files") of the 2000 Census, the 2003-2006 American Community Survey, and the 2004-2009 Current Population Survey. For women and men ages 65 and older, age- and sex-specific population estimates generated from the PUMS files...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008634675
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Household Response to the 2008 Tax Rebate: Survey Evidence and Aggregate Implications
Shapiro, Matthew D.; Slemrod, Joel; Sahm, Claudia R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
were generally more likely to spend the rebates. A review of other surveys confirms the general pattern of results and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548782