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| Title: | | Can I just check...? Effects of edit check questions on measurement error and survey estimates  |
| Authors: | | Lugtig, Peter Jäckle, Annette |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | ISER Working Paper Series 2011-23 |
| Abstract: | | Household income is difficult to measure, since it requires collecting information about all potential income sources for each member of a household. We assess the effects of two types of edit check questions on measurement error and survey estimates: within-wave edit checks use responses to questions earlier in the same interview to query apparent inconsistencies in responses; dependent interviewing uses responses from prior interviews to query apparent inconsistencies over time. The findings suggest that traditional interviewing methods under-estimate household income in the lower tail of the income distribution, but that neither edit check method has much effect on estimated poverty rates or transition rates in poverty. |
| Subjects: | | dependent interviewing validation study record check panel survey British Household Panel Survey unearned income non-labor income cash transfer household income poverty low income |
| JEL: | | I32 C83 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex
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