ESTIMATING MEASUREMENT ERROR IN ANNUAL JOB EARNINGS: A COMPARISON OF SURVEY AND ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

被引:77
作者
Abowd, John M. [1 ]
Stinson, Martha H. [2 ]
机构
[1] Cornell Univ, Census Bur NBER, CREST INSEE, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[2] US Bur Census, Washington, DC USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
EXTENT;
D O I
10.1162/REST_a_00352
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
We propose a new methodology that does not assume a prior specification of the statistical properties of the measurement errors and treats all sources as noisy measures of some underlying true value. The unobservable true value can be represented as a weighted average of all available measures, using weights that must be specified a priori unless there has been a truth audit. The Census Bureau's Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) survey jobs are linked to Social Security Administration earnings data, creating two potential annual earnings observations. The reliability statistics for both sources are quite similar except for cases where the SIPP used imputations for some missing monthly earnings reports.
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页码:1451 / 1467
页数:17
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