Title | Improving the Quality of Economic Data: Lessons from the HRS and AHEAD |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 1997 |
Authors | F. Juster, T, Smith, JP |
Journal | Journal of the American Statistical Association |
Volume | 92 |
Issue | 440 |
Pagination | 1268-78 |
Call Number | pubs_1997_Juster_FTJAmerStatAssoc.pdf |
Keywords | Methodology |
Abstract | Missing data are an increasingly important problem in economic surveys, especially when trying to measure household wealth. However, some relatively simple new survey methods such as follow-up brackets appear to appreciably improve the quality of household economic data. Brackets represent partial responses to asset questions and apparently significantly reduce item nonresponse. Brackets also provide a remedy to deal with nonignorable nonresponse bias, a critical problem with economic survey data. |
Notes | ProCite field 3 : Survey Research Center, U MI; RAND |
URL | https://ideas.repec.org/p/wpa/wuwpla/0402010.html |
Endnote Keywords | Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology/Microeconomic Data Management/Survey Methods |
Endnote ID | 1010 |
Citation Key | 6564 |