Improving the Quality of Economic Data: Lessons from the HRS and AHEAD

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1 January 2004

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Published in RePEc

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.

Keywords

IMPROVING THE QUALITY
ECONOMIC SURVEYS
ECONOMIC DATA
AHEAD MISSING
NONIGNORABLE
REDUCE ITEM
NONRESPONSE
BRACKETS
SURVEY

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