Extending the procedure of Engelberg et al. (2009) to surveys with varying interval-widths

Christoph Becker, Peter Dürsch, Thomas A. Eife and Alexander Glas

No 05/2022, FAU Discussion Papers in Economics from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute for Economics

Abstract: The approach by Engelberg, Manski, and Williams (2009) to convert probabilistic survey responses into continuous probability distributions implicitly assumes that the question intervals are equally wide. Almost all recently established household surveys have intervals of varying widths. Applying the standard approach to surveys with varying widths gives implausible and potentially misleading results. This note shows how the approach of Engelberg et al. (2009) can be adjusted to account for intervals of unequal width.

Keywords: Survey methods; probabilistic questions; density forecasts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C18 C82 C83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ecm
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/262304/1/181432562X.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Extending the Procedure of Engelberg et al. (2009) to Surveys with Varying Interval-Widths (2021)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:zbw:iwqwdp:052022

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in FAU Discussion Papers in Economics from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute for Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics ().