Opting or Not Opting to Share Income Tax Information with the Census: Does It Affect Research Findings?

Autor:	Louis-Philippe Morin, Pierre Brochu, Jean-Michel Billette
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Public Administration Sociology and Political Science Public economics Welfare economics Income tax State income tax Economics Gross income Census Research findings Affect (psychology)
Zdroj:	Canadian Public Policy. 40:67-83
ISSN:	1911-9917 0317-0861
DOI:	10.3138/cpp.2012-073
Popis:	Le present article porte sur l’effet de la decision de donner aux repondants au Recensement de 2006 l’option de permettre a Statistique Canada d’avoir acces a leurs dossiers fiscaux plutot que de repondre directement aux questions touchant leurs revenus. Nous avons constate que si l’on donne aux repondants l’option de partager (ou non) leurs dossiers fiscaux, cela ajoute de la confusion lorsqu’il s’agit de mesurer les inegalites des revenus des familles, en particulier des familles a faible revenu. Toutefois, la decision du consentement ne semble pas avoir d’effet materiel sur l’estimation des equations salariales standard. Abstract: This paper examines the implication of the decision to give 2006 Census respondents the option of letting Statistics Canada access their income tax files rather than answering income-related questions directly. We find that giving respondents the option to share their income tax files (or not) adds a confounding factor when it comes to measuring family-income inequality, particularly for the bottom tail of the distribution. The consent decision does not, however, materially affect the estimation of standard wage equations.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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