Survey Reweighting for Tax Microsimulation Modelling

John Creedy

No 03/17, Treasury Working Paper Series from New Zealand Treasury

Abstract: This paper describes a range of ‘minimum distance’ methods used to compute new weights for large cross-sectional surveys used in microsimulation modelling. Extraneous information about a range of population variables is used for calibration purposes. An iterative solution procedure is described and numerical examples are given, involving comparisons among alternative distance functions. An application to the New Zealand Household Economic Survey (HES) is reported.

Keywords: Household surveys; calibration; survey weights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C30 C42 C61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25
Date: 2003-09
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Chapter: SURVEY REWEIGHTING FOR TAX MICROSIMULATION MODELLING (2004)
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