What Does Variation in Survey Design Reveal about the Nature of Measurement Errors in Household Consumption?

This paper uses data from eight different consumption questionnaires randomly assigned to 4,000 households in Tanzania to obtain evidence on the nature of measurement errors in estimates of household consumption. While there are no validation data,...

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Main Authors:	Gibson, John, Beegle, Kathleen, De Weerdt, Joachim, Friedman, Jed
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS BENCHMARK BIASES CANDLES CIGARETTES COMMODITY CONSUMPTION MEASURE DEMAND FOR FOOD DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY EARNINGS LEVELS ECONOMETRICS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMIC STUDIES ECONOMIES OF SCALE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH EMPIRICAL RESULTS ENGEL CURVE ENGEL CURVES EQUATIONS EXPENDITURE DATA EXPLANATORY VARIABLE FOOD ^ CONSUMPTION FOOD CONSUMPTION FOOD DEMAND FOOD RECALL FOODS HIGH CORRELATION HOUSEHOLD BUDGET HOUSEHOLD BUDGET SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLDS HYPOTHESES INCOME GROWTH INCOME INCREASE INEQUALITY INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES LABOR ECONOMICS LABOR MARKET LIVING STANDARDS MEASURED CONSUMPTION MEASUREMENT ERROR MEASUREMENT ERRORS NEGATIVE CORRELATION NEGATIVE EFFECT OBSERVED VALUE PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION PERMANENT INCOME POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR COUNTRIES POVERTY REDUCTION PUBLIC GOODS RANDOM ERRORS RELIABILITY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES SIGNIFICANT IMPACT SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE STANDARD ERRORS STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE SUBSTITUTION EFFECT TOTAL CONSUMPTION TOTAL EXPENDITURE
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spelling	okr-10986-131532021-04-23T14:03:07Z What Does Variation in Survey Design Reveal about the Nature of Measurement Errors in Household Consumption? Gibson, John Beegle, Kathleen De Weerdt, Joachim Friedman, Jed AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS BENCHMARK BIASES CANDLES CIGARETTES COMMODITY CONSUMPTION MEASURE DEMAND FOR FOOD DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY EARNINGS LEVELS ECONOMETRICS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMIC STUDIES ECONOMIES OF SCALE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH EMPIRICAL RESULTS ENGEL CURVE ENGEL CURVES EQUATIONS EXPENDITURE DATA EXPLANATORY VARIABLE FOOD ^ CONSUMPTION FOOD CONSUMPTION FOOD DEMAND FOOD RECALL FOODS HIGH CORRELATION HOUSEHOLD BUDGET HOUSEHOLD BUDGET SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLDS HYPOTHESES INCOME GROWTH INCOME INCREASE INEQUALITY INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES LABOR ECONOMICS LABOR MARKET LIVING STANDARDS MEASURED CONSUMPTION MEASUREMENT ERROR MEASUREMENT ERRORS NEGATIVE CORRELATION NEGATIVE EFFECT OBSERVED VALUE PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION PERMANENT INCOME POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR COUNTRIES POVERTY REDUCTION PUBLIC GOODS RANDOM ERRORS RELIABILITY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES SIGNIFICANT IMPACT SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE STANDARD ERRORS STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE SUBSTITUTION EFFECT TOTAL CONSUMPTION TOTAL EXPENDITURE This paper uses data from eight different consumption questionnaires randomly assigned to 4,000 households in Tanzania to obtain evidence on the nature of measurement errors in estimates of household consumption. While there are no validation data, the design of one questionnaire and the resources put into its implementation make it likely to be substantially more accurate than the others. Comparing regressions using data from this benchmark design with results from the other questionnaires shows that errors have a negative correlation with the true value of consumption, creating a non-classical measurement error problem for which conventional statistical corrections may be ineffective. 2013-04-11T17:15:01Z 2013-04-11T17:15:01Z 2013-02 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/02/17370970/variation-survey-design-reveal-nature-measurement-errors-household-consumption-variation-survey-design-reveal-nature-measurement-errors-household-consumption http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13153 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6372 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Africa Tanzania
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topic	AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS BENCHMARK BIASES CANDLES CIGARETTES COMMODITY CONSUMPTION MEASURE DEMAND FOR FOOD DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY EARNINGS LEVELS ECONOMETRICS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMIC STUDIES ECONOMIES OF SCALE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH EMPIRICAL RESULTS ENGEL CURVE ENGEL CURVES EQUATIONS EXPENDITURE DATA EXPLANATORY VARIABLE FOOD ^ CONSUMPTION FOOD CONSUMPTION FOOD DEMAND FOOD RECALL FOODS HIGH CORRELATION HOUSEHOLD BUDGET HOUSEHOLD BUDGET SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLDS HYPOTHESES INCOME GROWTH INCOME INCREASE INEQUALITY INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES LABOR ECONOMICS LABOR MARKET LIVING STANDARDS MEASURED CONSUMPTION MEASUREMENT ERROR MEASUREMENT ERRORS NEGATIVE CORRELATION NEGATIVE EFFECT OBSERVED VALUE PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION PERMANENT INCOME POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR COUNTRIES POVERTY REDUCTION PUBLIC GOODS RANDOM ERRORS RELIABILITY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES SIGNIFICANT IMPACT SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE STANDARD ERRORS STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE SUBSTITUTION EFFECT TOTAL CONSUMPTION TOTAL EXPENDITURE
spellingShingle	AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS BENCHMARK BIASES CANDLES CIGARETTES COMMODITY CONSUMPTION MEASURE DEMAND FOR FOOD DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT POLICY EARNINGS LEVELS ECONOMETRICS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY ECONOMIC REVIEW ECONOMIC STUDIES ECONOMIES OF SCALE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH EMPIRICAL RESULTS ENGEL CURVE ENGEL CURVES EQUATIONS EXPENDITURE DATA EXPLANATORY VARIABLE FOOD ^ CONSUMPTION FOOD CONSUMPTION FOOD DEMAND FOOD RECALL FOODS HIGH CORRELATION HOUSEHOLD BUDGET HOUSEHOLD BUDGET SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLDS HYPOTHESES INCOME GROWTH INCOME INCREASE INEQUALITY INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES LABOR ECONOMICS LABOR MARKET LIVING STANDARDS MEASURED CONSUMPTION MEASUREMENT ERROR MEASUREMENT ERRORS NEGATIVE CORRELATION NEGATIVE EFFECT OBSERVED VALUE PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION PERMANENT INCOME POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLITICAL ECONOMY POOR COUNTRIES POVERTY REDUCTION PUBLIC GOODS RANDOM ERRORS RELIABILITY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES SIGNIFICANT IMPACT SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE STANDARD ERRORS STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE SUBSTITUTION EFFECT TOTAL CONSUMPTION TOTAL EXPENDITURE Gibson, John Beegle, Kathleen De Weerdt, Joachim Friedman, Jed What Does Variation in Survey Design Reveal about the Nature of Measurement Errors in Household Consumption?
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description	This paper uses data from eight different consumption questionnaires randomly assigned to 4,000 households in Tanzania to obtain evidence on the nature of measurement errors in estimates of household consumption. While there are no validation data, the design of one questionnaire and the resources put into its implementation make it likely to be substantially more accurate than the others. Comparing regressions using data from this benchmark design with results from the other questionnaires shows that errors have a negative correlation with the true value of consumption, creating a non-classical measurement error problem for which conventional statistical corrections may be ineffective.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Gibson, John Beegle, Kathleen De Weerdt, Joachim Friedman, Jed
author_facet	Gibson, John Beegle, Kathleen De Weerdt, Joachim Friedman, Jed
author_sort	Gibson, John
title	What Does Variation in Survey Design Reveal about the Nature of Measurement Errors in Household Consumption?
title_short	What Does Variation in Survey Design Reveal about the Nature of Measurement Errors in Household Consumption?
title_full	What Does Variation in Survey Design Reveal about the Nature of Measurement Errors in Household Consumption?
title_fullStr	What Does Variation in Survey Design Reveal about the Nature of Measurement Errors in Household Consumption?
title_full_unstemmed	What Does Variation in Survey Design Reveal about the Nature of Measurement Errors in Household Consumption?
title_sort	what does variation in survey design reveal about the nature of measurement errors in household consumption?
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2013
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/02/17370970/variation-survey-design-reveal-nature-measurement-errors-household-consumption-variation-survey-design-reveal-nature-measurement-errors-household-consumption http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13153
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What Does Variation in Survey Design Reveal about the Nature of Measurement Errors in Household Consumption?

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