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| Title: | | Compiling a harmonized database from Germany's 1978 to 2003 sample surveys of income and expenditure  |
| Authors: | | Bönke, Timm Schröder, Carsten Werdt, Clive |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | School of Business & Economics Discussion Paper 2010/4 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | German Sample Survey of Income and Expenditure annual vs. trimestrial data |
| JEL: | | C8 D1 D3 I3 |
| ISBN: | | 978-3-941240-16-2 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Diskussionsbeiträge, FB Wirtschaftswissenschaft, FU Berlin
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