Dealing With Incomplete Household Panel Data in Inequality Research

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dc.contributor.authorFrick, Joachim R.
dc.contributor.authorGrabka, Markus Michael
dc.contributor.authorGroh-Samberg, Olaf
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-08T17:34:06Z
dc.date.available2019-01-08T17:34:06Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.descriptionDieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.de
dc.descriptionThis publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.en
dc.description.abstractIn trying to capture complete within-household heterogeneity, household panel surveys typically try to interview all adult household members. Following from this, such surveys tend to suffer from partial unit nonresponse (PUNR), that is, the nonresponse of at least one member of an otherwise participating household, most likely yielding an underestimation of aggregate household income. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the authors evaluate four different strategies to deal with this phenomenon: (a) ignorance, that is, assuming the missing individual’s income to be zero; (b) adjustment of the equivalence scale to account for differences in household size and composition; (c) elimination of all households observed to suffer PUNR and reweighting of households observed to be at risk of but not affected by PUNR; and (d) longitudinal imputation of the missing income components. The aim of this article is to show how the choice of technique affects substantive results in inequality research. The authors find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well as on income mobility.en
dc.identifier.eissn1552-8294
dc.identifier.issn0049-1241
dc.identifier.urihttps://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/8851
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-7980
dc.language.isoen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subject.ddc390 Bräuche, Etikette, Folklorede
dc.subject.ddc300 Sozialwissenschaftende
dc.subject.otherhousehold panel surveysen
dc.subject.otherpartial unit nonresponseen
dc.subject.otherinequalityen
dc.subject.othermobilityen
dc.subject.otherimputationen
dc.subject.otherSOEPen
dc.titleDealing With Incomplete Household Panel Data in Inequality Researchen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.1177/0049124112440796
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue1
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleSociological Methods & Researchen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameSAGE Publicationsen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceWashington, DCen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend123
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart89
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume41
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tub.affiliationFak. 7 Wirtschaft und Managementde
tub.affiliation.facultyFak. 7 Wirtschaft und Managementde
tub.publisher.universityorinstitutionTechnische Universität Berlinde

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