Estimating underreporting of consumer expenditures using Markov latent class analysis

This paper examines reporting in specific consumer item categories (or commodities) and estimates expenditure underreporting due to survey respondents who erroneously report no expenditure in a category. Our approach for estimating underreporting errors is a two-step process. In the first step, a Ma...

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Main Authors: Clyde Tucker, Paul P. Biemer, Brian Meekins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Survey Research Association 2011-07-01
Series:Survey Research Methods
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Online Access:https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/view/4624