ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2460-619X
(2002):
Design effects in survey-based measures of household consumption.
Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Rationalitätskonzepte, Entscheidungsverhalten und Ökonomische Modellierung / Universität Mannheim,
Abstract
An important issue in designing survey questions on household consumption is the level of aggregation of expenditure categories. In this paper, I present experimental evidence on biases that are related to the choice of expenditure categories. Comparing responses to a ’one shot’ question with responses to a more disaggregated design that comprises 35 expenditure categories reveals significant underreporting in the one-shot question. The same holds true when responses to one of these still relatively broad categories (food and beverages) are compared with measures from a budget survey that is based on a very detailed expenditure diary. There is also some evidence that these biases affect subsequent substantive economic analysis such as the estimation of Engel curves.
Item Type: | Paper |
---|---|
Faculties: | Economics Economics > Chairs > Chair of Empirical Economics |
Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 19728 |
Date Deposited: | 15. Apr 2014 08:53 |
Last Modified: | 29. Apr 2016 09:17 |