Survey Annual Demographic Files (March ADS) and the Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Groups (ORGs). We use a …

This paper tests for a number of survey effects in the elicitation of expenditure items. In particular we examine the … features of survey design influence expenditure reports. We find that over one quarter of respondents have difficulty … survey question. It is crucial to further account for these features in ongoing surveys. -- Expenditure surveys ; survey …

survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent …. Significant differences are observed across survey designs with respect to different labor statistics. Labor force participation … rates, for example, vary by as much as 10 percentage points across the four survey assignments. Using a short labor module …

survey methods in collecting data from Japanese-Brazilian families, many of whom send migrants to Japan. The three surveys …) A snowball survey using Nikkei community groups to select the seeds; and 3) An intercept point survey collected at …

household income in one of the comparator surveys. Third, after imposing bands on comparator survey data, we measure the …. Disaggregation by gender proves fruitful in much of the analysis. -- Income data ; banding ; information loss ; Omnibus survey … ; British Social Attitudes survey …

a telephone survey. We find that an incentive improves response rates primarily amongst those individuals with the … longest history of income support receipt. Importantly, these individuals are least likely to respond to the survey in the … with heavy exposure to the income support system. -- Survey response ; incentive payments ; income support …