What did you really earn last year? Explaining measurement error in survey income data

Autor: Angel, Stefan, Disslbacher, Franziska, Humer, Stefan, Schnetzer, Matthias
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Sozialwissenschaften
Soziologie
Social sciences
sociology
anthropology
Income measurement error
Register data
Response error
Survey data
Survey error
Survey methods
European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) 2008-2011
Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis
Statistical Methods
Computer Methods
Einkommen
Messung
Fehler
Antwortverhalten
Befragung
Datenqualität
Datengewinnung
Erhebungsmethode
Lohn
Rente
Rentenleistung
Arbeitslosenunterstützung
soziale Faktoren
demographische Faktoren
soziale Erwünschtheit
Umfrageforschung
income
measurement
error
response behavior
survey
data quality
data capture
data collection method
wage
pension
pension payments
unemployment compensation
social factors
demographic factors
social desirability
survey research
10100
11000
Zdroj: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 182, 4, 1411-1437
Druh dokumentu: Zeitschriftenartikel<br />journal article
ISSN: 1467-985X
DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12463
Popis: The paper analyses the sources of income measurement error in surveys with a unique data set. We use the Austrian 2008-2011 waves of the European Union 'Statistics on income and living conditions' survey which provide individual information on wages, pensions and unemployment benefits from survey interviews and officially linked administrative records. Thus, we do not have to fall back on complex two-sample matching procedures like related studies. We empirically investigate four sources of measurement error, namely social desirability, sociodemographic characteristics of the respondent, the survey design and the presence of learning effects. We find strong evidence for a social desirability bias in income reporting, whereas the presence of learning effects is mixed and depends on the type of income under consideration. An Owen value decomposition reveals that social desirability is a major explanation of misreporting in wages and pensions, whereas sociodemographic characteristics are most relevant for mismatches in unemployment benefits.
Databáze: SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository
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