Comparing sample survey measures of English earnings of graduates with administrative data during the Great Recession

Jack Britton (), Neil Shephard () and Anna Vignoles

No W15/28, IFS Working Papers from Institute for Fiscal Studies

Abstract: This paper compares survey based labour earnings data for English graduates, taken from the UK’s Labour Force Survey (LFS), with the UK Government administrative sources of o?cial individual level earnings data. This type of administrative data has few sample selection issues, is substantially longitudinal and its large samples mean the earnings of subpopulations can be potentially studied (e.g. those who study a speci?c subject at a speci?c university and graduate in a speci?c year). We ?nd that very broadly the LFS and administrative data show a similar distribution of graduates’ earnings. However, the administrative data has considerably less gender disparity, higher high quantiles and more time series persistence. We also report on how the distribution of graduate and non-graduate earnings fell during each year of the Great Recession.

Date: 2015-09-24
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