Estimating underreporting of consumer expenditures using Markov latent class analysis

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

"This paper examines reporting in specific consumer item categories (or commodities) and estimates expenditure underreporting due to survey respondents who erroneously report no expenditure in a category. The author's approach for estimating underreporting errors is a two-step process. In the first step, a Markov latent class analysis is performed to estimate the proportion of consumers in various subpopulations who fail to report their actual expenditure in a particular commodity. Once this proportion is estimated, the dollar value of the missing expenditure is estimated using the mean expenditure of those in that subpopulation that did report an expenditure. Finally, the estimates are evaluated and discussed in light of external data on expenditure underreporting." (author's abstract)

Object Details

• Alternative title: Die Schätzung der ungenügenden Berichterstattung der Konsumausgaben mit Hilfe der latenten Klassenanalyse von Markov
• ISSN: 1864-3361
• Extent: Seite(n): 39-51
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Survey Research Methods, 5(2)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften ; Daten ; Datengewinnung ; Datenorganisation ; Datenerfassung ; Datenqualität ; Methode ; Methodenforschung ; Erhebungsmethode ; Fehler ; Konsum ; Konsumverhalten

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Tucker, Clyde ; Biemer, Paul P. ; Meekins, Brian
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Deutschland
• (when): 2011

Further information

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2011.v5i2.4624
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST