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Comparing wealth : data quality of the HFCS
Tiefensee, Anita; Grabka, Markus M. - 2016
The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about house-hold wealth (real and financial … framework for our analysis is the "Guidelines for Micro Statistics on Household Wealth" from the OECD (2013). We have two main … via weighting and imputation as well as further points which might restrict cross-country comparability of net wealth. We …
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Comparing wealth : data quality of the HFCS
Tiefensee, Anita; Grabka, Markus M. - 2014
The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about household wealth (real and financial …
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Comparing Wealth - Data Quality of the HFCS
Tiefensee, Anita - 2014
The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about household wealth (real and financial …
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A note on how to realize the full potential of the EU-SILC data
Berger, Melissa; Schaffner, Sandra - 2015
The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is a rotational panel provided by Eurostat that covers variables with a high potential for comparative European labour market and social research. Unfortunately, its current availability limits its potential research...
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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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Mode preferences in business surveys : evidence from Germany
Seiler, Christian - 2014
With the world-wide spread of the internet in the 1990s, the conduction of web or e-mail surveys became popular in research. Although these surveys provide fast data collection and reduced costs, results may suffer from biases due to the survey mode. While a variety of studies concerning mode...
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Learning from mouse movements : improving questionnaire and respondents' user experience through passive data collection
Horwitz, Rachel; Brockhaus, Sarah Maria; Henninger, Felix; … - 2017
Web surveys have become a standard, and often preferred, mode of survey administration in part because the technology underlying them is much more adaptable. Survey designers often use these technical features to help guide respondents through a survey, by incorporating automated skips, for...
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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...
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Comparison of imputation methods for handling missing categorical data with univariate pattern
Torres Munguía, Juan Armando - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 17 (2014), pp. 101-120
This paper examines the sample proportions estimates in the presence of univariate missing categorical data. A database about smoking habits (2011 National Addiction Survey of Mexico) was used to create simulated yet realistic datasets at rates 5% and 15% of missingness, each for MCAR, MAR and...
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