Respondent Behavior in Panel Studies: A Case Study for Income-Nonresponse by Means of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)

Jörg-Peter Schräpler

No 299, Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research

Abstract: Many validation studies deal with item-nonresponse and measurement error in earnings data. In this paper we explore motives of respondents for the failure to reveal earnings using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). GSOEP collects socio-economic information of private households in the Federal Republic of Germany. We explain the evolution of income-nonresponse in the GSOEP and demonstrate the importance of a discrimination between refusing the income-statement or don't know.

Keywords: Respondent behavior; Interviewer effects; Item-Nonresponse; Panel analysis; Multilevel modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 p.
Date: 2002
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