Examines a report issued by the Federal Commission on Statistical Methodology, Subcommittee on Measuring and Reporting the Quality of Survey Data, that reviews quality in terms of the measurement and reporting of sampling, nonresponse, coverage, measurement, and processing errors. Discusses the...

To monitor and evaluate programs for children receiving Supplemental Security Income, policymakers need reliable information on the children’s health and health care. This study compared the quality of data from the National Survey of SSI Children and Families with data from the National...

Household surveys are an important source of socioeconomic data and often yield important indicators to inform and monitor development policies. In developing countries, they have become an important form of data collection, supplementing or sometimes even replacing other data collection...

To monitor and evaluate programs for children receiving Supplemental Security Income, policymakers need reliable information on the children’s health and health care. This study compared the quality of data from the National Survey of SSI Children and Families with data from the National...

The contributors to this comprehensive book compile and analyse the latest data available on household wealth using, as case studies, the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Finland during the 1990s and into the twenty-first century. The authors show that in the US, trends are...