 Asking Households About Expenditures: What Have We Learned?Thomas Crossley () and Joachim Winter () No 19543, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Abstract: When designing household surveys, including surveys that measure consumption expenditure, numerous choices need to be made. Which survey mode should be used? Do recall questions or diaries provide more reliable expenditure data? How should the concept of a household be defined? How should the length of the recall period, the level of aggregation of expenditure items, and the response format be chosen? How are responses affected by incentives? Can computer-assisted surveys be used to reduce or correct response error in real time? In this paper, we provide a selective review of the literature on these questions. We also suggest some promising directions for future research. JEL-codes: C81 D12 (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published as Asking Households about Expenditures: What Have We Learned? , Thomas F. Crossley, Joachim K. Winter. in Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures , Carroll, Crossley, and Sabelhaus. 2015 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:19543 Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from Access Statistics for this paper More papers in NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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