rates declined sharply. Survey response rates and top income shares are then considered in tandem with coverage rates. Falls …This paper presents a comparative assessment of the performance of the household expenditure survey programs in … Australia, Canada, the UK and US. Cross-country and time series variation in survey methodology and experience is used to assess …

such as the Consumer Expenditure Survey. A detailed comparison is made between scanner data and diary-based budget survey … spending are similar. A large part of the difference is explained by households in the scanner survey failing to record any …

The ifo Investment Survey asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of sales, technological …

We use novel and unique survey data from Italy to shed light on key questions regarding the measurement of social …

welfare. An appropriately weighted survey-based distribution of an acceptable measure of economic welfare need not be less …

self-reported responses to subjective well-being (SWB) and stated preference (SP) survey questions to construct an index of …

household expenditures? We study the sources of the relevant official statistics--the Current Population Survey (CPS), the … Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), and the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX)--and find that the answers depend …

summarize the results of a household electrical appliance survey and describe how households in rural Kenya differ in terms of …

education) measured in the survey or on spatial estimates (most often for zip codes) from the American Community Survey. We …