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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| author | Clyde Tucker Paul P. Biemer Brian Meekins |
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| description | 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 Markov latent class analysis is performed to estimate the proportion of consumers in various subpopulations who fail to report their actual expenditure in a particular commodity. Once this proportion is estimated, the dollar value of the missing expenditure is estimated using the mean expenditure of those in that subpopulation that did report an expenditure. Finally, the estimates are evaluated and discussed in light of external data on expenditure underreporting. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7517425e788d4bc19a4ff2bf4fce494b2022-12-22T02:46:12ZengEuropean Survey Research AssociationSurvey Research Methods1864-33612011-07-015210.18148/srm/2011.v5i2.46244675Estimating underreporting of consumer expenditures using Markov latent class analysisClyde TuckerPaul P. Biemer0Brian MeekinsRTI InternationalThis 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 Markov latent class analysis is performed to estimate the proportion of consumers in various subpopulations who fail to report their actual expenditure in a particular commodity. Once this proportion is estimated, the dollar value of the missing expenditure is estimated using the mean expenditure of those in that subpopulation that did report an expenditure. Finally, the estimates are evaluated and discussed in light of external data on expenditure underreporting.https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/view/4624underreporting errorconsumer price indexmissing datasurvey evaluation |
| spellingShingle | Clyde Tucker Paul P. Biemer Brian Meekins Estimating underreporting of consumer expenditures using Markov latent class analysis Survey Research Methods underreporting error consumer price index missing data survey evaluation |
| title | Estimating underreporting of consumer expenditures using Markov latent class analysis |
| title_full | Estimating underreporting of consumer expenditures using Markov latent class analysis |
| title_fullStr | Estimating underreporting of consumer expenditures using Markov latent class analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Estimating underreporting of consumer expenditures using Markov latent class analysis |
| title_short | Estimating underreporting of consumer expenditures using Markov latent class analysis |
| title_sort | estimating underreporting of consumer expenditures using markov latent class analysis |
| topic | underreporting error consumer price index missing data survey evaluation |
| url | https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/view/4624 |
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