Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Jäckle, Annette
Author-Name: Lugtig, Peter
Title: Can I just check…? Effects of edit check questions on measurement error and survey estimates
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.

Creation-Date: 20110915
Number: 2011-23
Publication-Status: published
File-URL: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/files/working-papers/iser/2011-23.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:ese:iserwp:2011-23