Are You Being Asked? Impacts of Respondent Selection on Measuring Employment
Accurate estimates of men's and women's employment are at the heart of understanding sources of productivity and economic growth and designing well-targeted, gender-sensitive labor policies. How respondent selection in household and labo...
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okr-10986-333572022-09-20T00:13:26Z Are You Being Asked? Impacts of Respondent Selection on Measuring Employment Kilic, Talip Van den Broeck, Goedele Koolwal, Gayatri Moylan, Heather GENDER LABOR MARKET EMPLOYMENT RESPONDENT SELECTION HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION SELF EMPLOYMENT Accurate estimates of men's and women's employment are at the heart of understanding sources of productivity and economic growth and designing well-targeted, gender-sensitive labor policies. How respondent selection in household and labor force surveys affects these estimates is a key question, for which experimental evidence outside high-income settings is limited. Leveraging two concurrent, national surveys in Malawi that differed in their approach to respondent selection, the analysis shows that, compared with the best practice of privately interviewing adults about their employment outcomes, the common "business-as-usual" approach that permits the use of proxy respondents and non-private/group interviews leads to significant underreporting of employment across a range of wage and self-employment activities, with stronger effects for women and for a longer (12-month) recall period. Under the business-as-usual approach, the main factors linked to underreporting include household wealth, proxy reporting, and potential difficulties associated with interpreting/answering questions on household non-farm enterprises. 2020-02-20T16:25:55Z 2020-02-20T16:25:55Z 2020-02 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/899841582040036337/Are-You-Being-Asked-Impacts-of-Respondent-Selection-on-Measuring-Employment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33357 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9152 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Malawi |
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GENDER LABOR MARKET EMPLOYMENT RESPONDENT SELECTION HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION SELF EMPLOYMENT Kilic, Talip Van den Broeck, Goedele Koolwal, Gayatri Moylan, Heather Are You Being Asked? Impacts of Respondent Selection on Measuring Employment |
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Accurate estimates of men's and
women's employment are at the heart of understanding
sources of productivity and economic growth and designing
well-targeted, gender-sensitive labor policies. How
respondent selection in household and labor force surveys
affects these estimates is a key question, for which
experimental evidence outside high-income settings is
limited. Leveraging two concurrent, national surveys in
Malawi that differed in their approach to respondent
selection, the analysis shows that, compared with the best
practice of privately interviewing adults about their
employment outcomes, the common
"business-as-usual" approach that permits the use
of proxy respondents and non-private/group interviews leads
to significant underreporting of employment across a range
of wage and self-employment activities, with stronger
effects for women and for a longer (12-month) recall period.
Under the business-as-usual approach, the main factors
linked to underreporting include household wealth, proxy
reporting, and potential difficulties associated with
interpreting/answering questions on household non-farm enterprises. |
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Working Paper |
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Kilic, Talip Van den Broeck, Goedele Koolwal, Gayatri Moylan, Heather |
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Kilic, Talip Van den Broeck, Goedele Koolwal, Gayatri Moylan, Heather |
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Kilic, Talip |
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Are You Being Asked? Impacts of Respondent Selection on Measuring Employment |
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Are You Being Asked? Impacts of Respondent Selection on Measuring Employment |
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Are You Being Asked? Impacts of Respondent Selection on Measuring Employment |
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Are You Being Asked? Impacts of Respondent Selection on Measuring Employment |
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Are You Being Asked? Impacts of Respondent Selection on Measuring Employment |
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are you being asked? impacts of respondent selection on measuring employment |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2020 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/899841582040036337/Are-You-Being-Asked-Impacts-of-Respondent-Selection-on-Measuring-Employment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33357 |
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