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Completing web surveys on mobile devices : does screen size affect data quality?

Wenz, Alexander - 2017

Using data from a non-mobile-optimised survey in the UK, this paper compares the quality of survey data from mobile devices with different screen size. The findings suggest that data quality mainly differs between small smartphones with a diagonal screen size of below four inches and larger...

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Correlates of obtaining informed consent to data linkage : respondent, interview and interviewer characteristics

Sala, Emanuela; Burton, Jonathan; Knies, Gundi - 2010

In the UK, in order to link individual-level administrative records to survey responses, a respondent needs to give their written consent. This paper explores whether characteristics of the respondent, the interviewer or survey design features influence consent. We use the BHPS combined with a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702342

Using EU-SILC data for cross-national analysis : strengths, problems and recommendations

Iacovou, Maria; Kaminska, Olena; Levy, Horacio - 2012

The EU's Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), launched in 2003, was the first micro-level data set to provide comprehensive data on incomes and other social and economic domains over the enlarged EU. This paper draws on two programmes of research to ask how well the EU-SILC has...

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Measuring poverty persistence with missing data with an application to Peruvian panel data

Díaz, Yadira; Pudney, Stephen E. - 2013 - This version: October 30, 2013

We consider the estimation of measures of persistent poverty in panel surveys with missing data, focusing on the persistent poverty headcount, its duration-adjusted variant, and a related measure used by the European Union as an indicator of the risk of persistent poverty. We develop a partial...

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What has been happening to UK income inequality since the mid-1990s? : answers from reconciled and combined household survey and tax return data

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2016

Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences in variable definitions and combine survey and tax...

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Intergenerational wealth transmission in Great Britain

Gregg, Paul; Kanabar, Ricky - 2021

We document the intergenerational persistence of wealth between adult offspring and their parent's using the Wealth and … Assets Survey for Great Britain. We estimate an intergenerational wealth elasticity of 0.4 and rank-rank elasticity of 0 ….3 and find wealth persistence for individuals in their 60s is lower than for those currently aged in their 30s and early 40s …

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Intergenerational wealth transmission and mobility in great britain : what components of wealth matter?

Gregg, Paul; Kanabar, Ricky - 2022

The rapid widening of intergenerational wealth inequalities has led to sharp differences in living standards in Great … Britain. Understanding which components of wealth are driving such inequalities is important for improving wealth and social … mobility. We show the change in the intergenerational persistence in wealth in Great Britain is due to inequality in offspring …

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The impact of mobile phones on survey measurement error

Lynn, Peter; Kaminska, Olena - 2011

Mobile phone survey interviewing is becoming increasingly prevalent, so it is important to understand how it affects measurement error. We link cognitive response process theory (Tourangeau et al 2000) to theories of mode effects to build a comprehensive framework that identifies ways in which...

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Panel attrition: how important is it to keep the same interviewer?

Lynn, Peter; Kaminska, Olena; Goldstein, Harvey - 2011

We assess whether the probability of a sample member participating at a particular wave of a panel survey is greater if the same interviewer is deployed as at the previous wave. Previous research on this topic mainly uses non-experimental data. Consequently, a) interviewer change is generally...

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Data quality in telephone surveys and the effect of questionnaire length : a cross-national experiment

Roberts, Caroline; Eva, Gillian; Allum, Nick; Lynn, Peter - 2010

Respondents in long telephone survey interviews may adopt satisficing strategies as they approach the end of the questionnaire (Holbrook, Green and Krosnick, 2003). However, there is inconsistency regarding the relationship between questionnaire length and different forms of satisficing. We...

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