Compiling a harmonized database from Germany’s 1978 to 2003 sample surveys of income and expenditure

Autor:	Timm Bönke, Clive Werdt, Carsten Schröder
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Statistics and Probability Database Comparability Econometrics Economics General Social Sciences Survey sampling Sample (statistics) Survey research Census computer.software_genre General Economics Econometrics and Finance computer
Zdroj:	AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv. 7:135-168
ISSN:	1863-8163 1863-8155
Popis:	We outline a procedure for unifying various cross sections of the German Sample Survey of Income and Expenditure in a pooled database, and discuss potential pitfalls of such a venture. Particularly, we investigate the consequences of a major break in the survey design for inter-temporal comparability of expenditure distributions: a reduction of the surveying period from twelve to three month taking place between the census years 1993 and 1998. We demonstrate that the shortened survey period impacts the commodity-specific expenditure distributions differently, and that different commodity-specific purchase frequencies are a likely explanation. Moreover, we suggest and empirically assess the suitability of several conversion procedures to ensure comparability of the expenditure distributions before and after the shortening of the surveying period.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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