Arbeitspapier
Rarely pure and never simple: Extracting the truth from self-reported data on substance use
We consider the misreporting of illicit drug use and juvenile smoking in self-report surveys and its consequences for statistical inference. Panel data containing repeated self-reports of 'lifetime' prevalence give unambiguous evidence of misreporting as 'recanting' of earlier reports of drug use. The identification of true initiation and reporting processes from such data is problematic in short panels, whilst more secure identification is possible in panels with at least five waves. Nevertheless, evidence from three UK datasets clearly indicates serious underreporting of cannabis, cocaine and tobacco use by young people, with consequent large biases in statistical modelling.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: cemmap working paper ; No. CWP11/07
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Duration Analysis; Optimal Timing Strategies
Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
Health: Other
- Subject
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illicit drugs , smoking , misreporting , measurement error , nonparametric identification , OCJS , BCS70 , BHPS
Drogenkonsum
Rauchen
Jugendliche
Statistischer Fehler
Schätzung
Großbritannien
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Pudney, Stephen
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)
- (where)
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London
- (when)
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2007
- DOI
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doi:10.1920/wp.cem.2007.1107
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Pudney, Stephen
- Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (cemmap)
Time of origin
- 2007
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