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The British household panel survey and its income data

Jenkins, Stephen - 2010

This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income...

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Socio-economic segregation in European capital cities : increasing separation between poor and rich

Musterd, Sako; Marcińczak, Szymon; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2015

Socio-economic inequality is on the rise in major European cities as are the worries about that, since this development is seen as threatening social cohesion and stability. Surprisingly, relatively little is known about the spatial dimensions of rising socioeconomic inequality. This paper...

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Which Mexicans Are white? : enumerator-assigned race in the 1930 Census and the socioeconomic integration of Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2023

The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by … enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non …'s socioeconomic attainment. The propensity for Census enumerators to identify Mexican Americans as white varied enormously across U …

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Data scarcity and poverty measurement

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2021

Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide a broad overview of the pros and cons of poverty imputation in data-scarce environments, update recent...

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Estimating poverty for refugee populations : can cross-survey imputation methods substitute for data scarcity?

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Verme, Paolo - 2019

The increasing growth of forced displacement worldwide has led to the stronger interest of various stakeholders in measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper...

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Cumulation of cross-section surveys: evaluation of alternative concepts for the cumulated Continuous Household Budget Surveys (LWR) 1999 until 2003 compared to the Sample Survey of...

Merz, Joachim; Stolze, Henning - 2010

With the development of household budget systems and with regard to the requirements of the European Union with new EU-SILC approaches, the cumulation of cross-section surveys to an integrated information system is recently discussed and required. In particular the reconstruction of household...

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How reliable are income data collected with a single question?

Micklewright, John (contributor); … - 2007

Income is an important correlate for numerous phenomena in the social sciences. But many surveys collect data with just a single question covering all forms of income. This raises issues of quality, and these are heightened when individuals are asked about the household total rather than own...

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Poverty in Britain in 1904 : an early social survey rediscovered

Gazeley, Ian (contributor); Newell, Andrew (contributor) - 2007

Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turn of the 20th century. This paper introduces a newly-discovered household budget data set for the early 1900s. These data are more representative of urban working households in Britain in the period...

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Beyond qualifications : returns to cognitive and socio-emotional skills in Colombia

Acosta, Pablo; Muller, Noël; Sarzosa, Miguel - 2015

This paper examines the relationship between individuals' skills and labor market outcomes for the working-age population of Colombia's urban areas. Using a 2012 unique household survey, the paper finds that cognitive skills (aptitudes to perform mental tasks such as comprehension or reasoning)...

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UK households' carbon footprint : a comparison of the association between household characteristics and emissions from home energy, transport and other goods and services

Buchs, Milena; Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2013

Does the association between household characteristics and household CO2 emissions differ for different areas such as home energy, transport, indirect and total emissions in the UK? Specific types of households might be more likely to have high emissions in some areas than in others and thus be...

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