Bitte verwenden Sie diesen Link, um diese Publikation zu zitieren, oder auf sie als Internetquelle zu verweisen: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/117333 
Erscheinungsjahr: 
2015
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Diskussionsbeiträge No. 2015/27
Verlag: 
Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Berlin
Zusammenfassung: 
In self-reported data usually a phenomenon called 'heaping' occurs, i.e. survey participants round the values of their income, weight or height to some degree. Additionally, respondents may be more prone to round off or up due to social desirability. By ignoring the heaping process a severe bias in terms of spikes and bumps is introduced when applying kernel density methods naively to the rounded data. A generalized Stochastic Expectation Maximization (SEM) approach accounting for heaping with potentially asymmetric rounding behaviour in univariate kernel density estimation is presented in this work. The introduced methods are applied to survey data of the German Socio-Economic Panel and exhibit very good performance simulations.
Schlagwörter: 
Heaping
Survey Data
Measurement error
Self-reported data
Kernel density estimation
Rounded data
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

Datei(en):
Datei
Größe
673.85 kB





Publikationen in EconStor sind urheberrechtlich geschützt.