This paper uses data from eight
different consumption questionnaires randomly assigned to
4,000 households in Tanzania to obtain evidence on the
nature of measurement errors in estimates of household
consumption. While there are no validation data, the design
of one questionnaire and the resources put into its
implementation make it likely to be substantially more
accurate than the others. Comparing regressions using data
from this benchmark design with results from the other
questionnaires shows that errors have a negative correlation
with the true value of consumption, creating a non-classical
measurement error problem for which conventional statistical
corrections may be ineffective.
Bibliographic Details
| Main Authors: |
Gibson, John,
Beegle, Kathleen,
De Weerdt, Joachim,
Friedman, Jed |
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper
biblioteca
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| Language: | English
en_US |
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| Published: |
World Bank, Washington, DC
2013-02
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| Subjects: | AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS,
BENCHMARK,
BIASES,
CANDLES,
CIGARETTES,
COMMODITY,
CONSUMPTION MEASURE,
DEMAND FOR FOOD,
DEPENDENT VARIABLE,
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES,
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS,
DEVELOPMENT POLICY,
EARNINGS LEVELS,
ECONOMETRICS,
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY,
ECONOMIC REVIEW,
ECONOMIC STUDIES,
ECONOMIES OF SCALE,
EMPIRICAL RESEARCH,
EMPIRICAL RESULTS,
ENGEL CURVE,
ENGEL CURVES,
EQUATIONS,
EXPENDITURE DATA,
EXPLANATORY VARIABLE,
FOOD ^ CONSUMPTION,
FOOD CONSUMPTION,
FOOD DEMAND,
FOOD RECALL,
FOODS,
HIGH CORRELATION,
HOUSEHOLD BUDGET,
HOUSEHOLD BUDGET SURVEYS,
HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS,
HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION,
HOUSEHOLD SIZE,
HOUSEHOLD SURVEY,
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS,
HOUSEHOLDS,
HYPOTHESES,
INCOME GROWTH,
INCOME INCREASE,
INEQUALITY,
INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES,
LABOR ECONOMICS,
LABOR MARKET,
LIVING STANDARDS,
MEASURED CONSUMPTION,
MEASUREMENT ERROR,
MEASUREMENT ERRORS,
NEGATIVE CORRELATION,
NEGATIVE EFFECT,
OBSERVED VALUE,
PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION,
PERMANENT INCOME,
POLICY DISCUSSIONS,
POLICY RESEARCH,
POLITICAL ECONOMY,
POOR COUNTRIES,
POVERTY REDUCTION,
PUBLIC GOODS,
RANDOM ERRORS,
RELIABILITY,
SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES,
SIGNIFICANT IMPACT,
SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE,
STANDARD ERRORS,
STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE,
SUBSTITUTION EFFECT,
TOTAL CONSUMPTION,
TOTAL EXPENDITURE, |
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/02/17370970/variation-survey-design-reveal-nature-measurement-errors-household-consumption-variation-survey-design-reveal-nature-measurement-errors-household-consumption
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13153
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