全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Is the Consumer Expenditure Survey Representative by Income?

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w19589
来源ID	Working Paper 19589
	Is the Consumer Expenditure Survey Representative by Income?
	John Sabelhaus; David Johnson; Stephen Ash; David Swanson; Thesia Garner; John Greenlees; Steve Henderson
发表日期	2013-10-31
出版年	2013
语种	英语
摘要	Aggregate under-reporting of household spending in the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) can result from two fundamental types of measurement errors: higher-income households (who presumably spend more than average) are under-represented in the CE estimation sample, or there is systematic under-reporting of spending by at least some CE survey respondents. Using a new data set linking CE units to zip-code level average Adjusted Gross Income (AGI), we show that the very highest-income households are less likely to respond to the survey when they are sampled, but unit non-response rates are not associated with income over most of the income distribution. Although increasing representation at the high end of the income distribution could in principle significantly raise aggregate CE spending, the low reported average propensity to spend for higher-income respondent households could account for at least as much of the aggregate shortfall in total spending.
主题	Econometrics ; Data Collection ; Microeconomics ; Households and Firms
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w19589
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577264
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	John Sabelhaus,David Johnson,Stephen Ash,et al. Is the Consumer Expenditure Survey Representative by Income?. 2013.