Item Non-Response on Income and Wealth Questions

Regina Riphahn and Oliver Serfling

No 573, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: After reviewing the literature on item non-response we focus on three issues: First, is there significant heterogeneity in item non-response across financial questions and in the association of covariates with item non-response across outcomes? Second, can the informational value of surveys be improved by matching interviewers and respondents based on their characteristics? Third, how does offering a "don't know" answer option affect respondent behavior? The questions are answered based on detailed survey and interviewer data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, considering a broad set of income and wealth outcomes.

Keywords: item non-response; survey quality; interviewer effects; income and wealth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 I32 J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2002-09
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Published - published in: Empirical Economics, 2005, 30 (2), 521-538

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