Genuine Fakes : The Prevalence and Implications of Data Fabrication in a Large South African Survey
How prevalent is data fabrication in household surveys? Would such fabrication substantially affect the validity of empirical analyses? We document how we identified such fabrication in South Africa's longitudinal National Income Dynamics Study, which affected about 7% of the sample. The fabric...
Main Authors: | Finn, Arden, Ranchhod, Vimal |
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Format: | Journal Article |
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
2018
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30131 |
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