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Improving the Quality of Economic Data: Lessons from the HRS and AHEAD
F. Juster,James P. Smith +1 more
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Follow-up brackets as discussed by the authors represent partial responses to asset questions and apparently significantly reduce item nonresponse, which is a critical problem with economic survey data, and also provide a remedy to deal with nonignorable nonresponse bias.Abstract:
Missing data are an increasingly important problem in economic surveys, especially when trying to measure household wealth. However, some relatively simple new survey methods such as follow-up brackets appear to appreciably improve the quality of household economic data. Brackets represent partial responses to asset questions and apparently significantly reduce item nonresponse. Brackets also provide a remedy to deal with nonignorable nonresponse bias, a critical problem with economic survey data.read more
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