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 …

Living standards measurement surveys require sustained attention for several hours. We quantify survey fatigue by … randomizing the order of questions in 2-3 hour-long in-person surveys. An additional hour of survey time increases the probability … categories such as assets or expenditures declines as the survey goes on, and this effect is sizeable for some categories: for …