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Measuring Labor Earnings Inequality Using Public-Use March Current Population Survey Data : The Value of Including Variances and Cell Means When Imputing Topcoded Values
Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2010
variances and cell means for all topcoded income values in the public-use version of these data. We then provide a procedure … imputing its topcoded income values. As an example of its value we show how our new procedure improves on existing imputation …
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The Value of Luminosity Data as a Proxy for Economic Statistics
Chen, Xi - 2010
One of the pervasive issues in social and environmental research has been to improve the quality of socioeconomic data in developing countries. Because of the shortcoming of standard data sources, the present study examines luminosity (measures of nighttime lights) as a proxy for standard...
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The Feasibility and Importance of Adding Measures of Actual Experience to Cross-Sectional Data Collection
Blau, Francine D. - 2011
We use Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and data from a 2008 telephone survey of adults conducted by Westat …
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Measuring Total Household Spending in a Monthly Internet Survey : Evidence from the American Life Panel
Hurd, Michael D. - 2012
Beginning in May 2009 we fielded a monthly Internet survey designed to measure total household spending as the aggregate of about 40 spending components. This paper reports on a number of outcomes from 30 waves of data collection. These outcomes include sample attrition, indicators of data...
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Privacy and Innovation
Goldfarb, Avi - 2014
Information and communication technology now enables firms to collect detailed and potentially intrusive data about their customers both easily and cheaply. This means that privacy concerns are no longer limited to government surveillance and public figures' private lives. The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067852
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Education Research and Administrative Data
Figlio, David N. - 2015
Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just a short time ago. As the world has developed this remarkable capacity to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014667
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Survey Under-Coverage of Top Incomes and Estimation of Inequality : What is the Role of the Uk's SPI Adjustment?
Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2017
Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income …'s pioneering ‘SPI adjustment' method that implements this idea. Since 1992, the principal income distribution series (reported … annually in Households Below Average Income) has been based on household survey data in which the incomes of a small number of …
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The Rise of Cloud Computing : Minding Your P’S, Q's and K's
Byrne, David M. - 2018
Cloud computing—computing done on an off-site network of resources accessed through the Internet—is revolutionizing how computing services are used. However, because cloud is so new and it largely is an intermediate input to other industries, it is difficult to track in the U.S. statistical...
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A Practical Method to Reduce Privacy Loss When Disclosing Statistics Based on Small Samples
Chetty, Raj - 2019
bias. We illustrate how the method can be implemented by discussing how it was used to release estimates of social mobility …
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Is the Consumer Expenditure Survey Representative by Income?
Sabelhaus, John - 2018
types of measurement errors: higher-income households (who presumably spend more than average) are under-represented in the … new data set linking CE units to zip-code level average Adjusted Gross Income (AGI), we show that the very highest-income … income over most of the income distribution. Although increasing representation at the high end of the income distribution …
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