Item Non-Response on Income and Wealth Questions

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After reviewing the literature on item non-response we focus on three issues: First, is there significant heterogeneity in item non-response across financial questions and in the association of covariates with item non-response across outcomes? Second, can the informational value of surveys be improved by matching interviewers and respondents based on their characteristics? Third, how does offering a "don't know" answer option affect respondent behavior? The questions are answered based on detailed survey and interviewer data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, considering a broad set of income and wealth outcomes.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 573

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General ; Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access ; Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
• Subject: item non-response ; survey quality ; interviewer effects ; income and wealth ; Interview ; Laufende Stichprobenerhebung ; Sozialpsychologie ; Einkommen ; Vermögen ; Schätzung ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Riphahn, Regina T. ; Serfling, Oliver
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2002

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21355
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET