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New imputation procedures in the measurement of inequality, growth, and poverty in Brazil

This paper develops a new imputation methodology applied to missing incomes values in PNAD. PNAD is the main Brazilian household survey, but it has no imputation. The imputation process starts by fitting regression models applied to different income sources considering the complex sampling design of the survey. Later this procedure is combined with stochastic methods. In 2015, 2.5 per cent of the sample had per capita incomes imputed, resulting in slightly higher levels of inequality. Inequality and poverty changes were not affected by imputation. We took advantage of the methodology proposed to input rents and to preserve pressure points in income distributions associated with Brazilian institutional features such as minimum wages.

ISBN
978-92-9256-570-1
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2018/128

Classification
Wirtschaft
Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Subject
Imputation methods
stochastic imputation
inequality
poverty
missing incomes

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Hecksher, Marcos
Neri, Marcelo Cortes
Silva, Pedro Luis do Nascimento
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(where)
Helsinki
(when)
2018

DOI
doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2018/570-1
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Hecksher, Marcos
  • Neri, Marcelo Cortes
  • Silva, Pedro Luis do Nascimento
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Time of origin

  • 2018

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