Household surveys of the distribution of income and expenditure are discussed in this paper. The potential for non-sampling errors, effecting both the mean and measures of dispersion, is noted. These errors are shown to result in substantial discrepancies between the survey data and national...

Machine generated contents note: 1: Sir Frederick Morton Eden's "The State of the Poor" (1797-1997), -- Z.E. Kenessey -- 2: The Eden Family, Lord Eden -- 3: An Appreciation of Eden's Contribution to the Study of Poverty, -- G. Pyatt and M. Ward -- Part 1: Some General Concerns -- 4: The Social...