 The quality of social security benefit data in the British Family Resources Survey: implications for investigating income support take‐up by pensionersRuth Hancock and Geraldine Barker Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2005, vol. 168, issue 1, 63-82 Abstract: Summary. Family Resources Survey (FRS) data for April 1997 to March 2000 are used to estimate the take‐up of income support (IS) by a subset of pensioners. We scrutinize the quality of FRS data for this purpose and describe a process of identifying and correcting inconsistencies in the data. Comparisons are made, before and after corrections to the data, of take‐up estimates, logistic regression take‐up models and predictions of take‐up responses to changes in IS rates. Overall, the corrections do not have large effects on estimated take‐up rates but suggest that non‐take‐up is marginally less serious than the uncorrected data imply. Logistic regressions using corrected and uncorrected data were in broad agreement on the factors influencing take‐up. There were some differences in the scale of these influences, with implications for predictions of take‐up responses to changes in the generosity of IS. Desirable improvements in the FRS are identified. Date: 2005 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:jorssa:v:168:y:2005:i:1:p:63-82 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A is currently edited by A. Chevalier and L. Sharples More articles in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A from Royal Statistical Society Contact information at EDIRC. |
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