Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/65981 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2011-23
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
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

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