@techreport{Bonke2010Compiling,
abstract = {We outline a procedure for combining six cross-sections of the German Sample Survey of Income and Expenditure, and discuss potential pitfalls of such a venture. Particularly, we investigate the consequences of a major break in the survey design for inter-temporal comparisons of expenditure categories: a reduction of the surveying period from twelve to three month taking place between the census years 1993 and 1998. We demonstrate that for several commodities a division-by-four of annually-surveyed expenses cannot guarantee inter-temporal comparability of expenditure distributions. We suggest and test the performance of several alternative conversion procedures. Suitability of conversion strategies hinges upon good-specific purchase properties.},
address = {Berlin},
author = {Timm B\"{o}nke and Carsten Schr\"{o}der and Clive Werdt},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
isbn = {978-3-941240-16-2},
keywords = {C8; D1; D3; I3; 330; German Sample Survey of Income and Expenditure; annual vs. trimestrial data; Haushaltsbudget-Statistik; Zeit; Stichprobenverfahren; Deutschland},
language = {eng},
number = {2010/4},
publisher = {Freie Univ., Fachbereich Wirtschaftswiss.},
title = {Compiling a harmonized database from Germany's 1978 to 2003 sample surveys of income and expenditure},
type = {School of Business & Economics Discussion Paper},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/30320},
year = {2010}
}
