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Revisiting the income-health nexus : the importance of choosing the "right" indicator

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...

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Exemplarische Integration raumrelevanter Indikatoren auf Basis von "Fernerkundungsdaten“ in das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP)

Goebel, Jan; Wagner, Gert G.; Wurm, Michael - 2010

Der Beitrag zeigt räumliche Auswertungsmethoden durch die Einbindung von raumrelevanten Indikatoren aus Fernerkundungsdaten in die Daten der Längsschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) auf Basis von Geo- Koordinaten. Durch die Verortung von Privathaushalten (ohne Darstellung der...

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Benford's Law as an instrument for fraud detection in surveys using the data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Schräpler, Jörg-Peter - 2010

This paper focuses on fraud detection in surveys using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data as an example for testing newly methods proposed here. A statistical theorem referred to as Benford's Law states that in many sets of numerical data, the significant digits are not uniformly distributed, as...

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Measuring income in household panel surveys for Germany : a comparison of EU-SILC and SOEP

Frick, Joachim R.; Krell, Kristina - 2010

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … Germany. The - in some cases severe - differences identified are discussed in the context of the surveying and interviewing … exert a major influence on the substantive results and thus on the core findings regarding the social situation of Germany …

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Dealing with incomplete household panel data in inequality research

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2010

Population surveys around the world face the problem of declining cooperation and participation rates of respondents. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total household disposable income; there is also a further...

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Individual and neighborhood determinants of survey nonresponse : an analysis based on a new subsample of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), microgeographic characteristics and...

Schräpler, Jörg-Peter; Schupp, Jürgen; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010

This study examines the phenomenon of nonresponse in the first wave of a refresher sample (subsample H) of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Our first step is to link additional (commercial) microgeographic data on the immediate neighborhoods of the households visited by...

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Exploring the linkage of spatial indicators from remote sensing data with survey data : the case of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and 3D city models

Goebel, Jan; Wurm, Michael; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010

This paper demonstrates the spatial evaluation of survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study using geo-coordinates and spatially relevant indicators from remote sensing data. By geocoding the addresses of survey households with block-level geographic precision (while...