Calibrating Time-Use Estimates for the British Household Panel Survey

Cristina Borra, Almudena Sevilla () and Jonathan Gershuny

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2013, vol. 114, issue 3, 1224 pages

Abstract: This paper proposes an innovative statistical matching method to combine the advantages of large national surveys and time diary data. We use data from two UK datasets that share stylised time-use information, crucial for the matching process. In particular, time-diary information of an individual from the Home On-line Study, our donor data set, is imputed to a similar individual from the British Household Panel Survey, our recipient dataset. Propensity score methods are used in conjunction with Mahalanobis matching to increase matching quality. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

Keywords: Statistical matching; Propensity score; Mahalanobis distance; Childcare time (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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