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Household Surveys in Crisis

The Journal of economic perspectives, 2015-10, Vol.29 (4), p.199-226 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © 2015 American Economic Association ;Copyright American Economic Association Fall 2015 ;ISSN: 0895-3309 ;EISSN: 1944-7965 ;DOI: 10.1257/jep.29.4.199

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  • Title:
    Household Surveys in Crisis
  • Author: Meyer, Bruce D. ; Mok, Wallace K. C. ; Sullivan, James X.
  • Subjects: Benchmarks ; Censuses ; Consumer surveys ; Economic surveys ; Economic theory ; Estimation bias ; Health surveys ; Households ; Innovation ; Innovations ; Measurement errors ; Opinion polls ; Polls & surveys ; Social research ; Social sciences ; Social Security Disability Insurance ; Social surveys ; Studies ; Supplemental security income ; Survey data
  • Is Part Of: The Journal of economic perspectives, 2015-10, Vol.29 (4), p.199-226
  • Description: Household surveys, one of the main innovations in social science research of the last century, are threatened by declining accuracy due to reduced cooperation of respondents. While many indicators of survey quality have steadily declined in recent decades, the literature has largely emphasized rising nonresponse rates rather than other potentially more important dimensions to the problem. We divide the problem into rising rates of nonresponse, imputation, and measurement error, documenting the rise in each of these threats to survey quality over the past three decades. A fundamental problem in assessing biases due to these problems in surveys is the lack of a benchmark or measure of truth, leading us to focus on the accuracy of the reporting of government transfers. We provide evidence from aggregate measures of transfer reporting as well as linked microdata. We discuss the relative importance of misreporting of program receipt and conditional amounts of benefits received, as well as some of the conjectured reasons for declining cooperation and for survey errors. We end by discussing ways to reduce the impact of the problem including the increased use of administrative data and the possibilities for combining administrative and survey data.
  • Publisher: Nashville: American Economic Association
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0895-3309
    EISSN: 1944-7965
    DOI: 10.1257/jep.29.4.199
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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