Survey nonresponse and the distribution of income, Vol. 1 of 1

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Survey nonresponse and the distribution of income

Author:	Korinek, Anton; Mistiaen, Johan A.; Ravallion, Martin;	Collection Title:	Policy, Research working paper ; no. WPS 3543
Country:	United States; World;	Date Stored:	2005/03/22
Document Date:	2005/03/01	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Region:	Rest Of The World; The World Region
Report Number:	WPS3543	SubTopics:	Governance Indicators; Economic Theory & Research; Inequality; Health Economics & Finance; Poverty Impact Evaluation
Volume No:	1 of 1

Summary: The authors examine the distributional implications of selective compliance in sample surveys, whereby households with different incomes are not equally likely to participate. They discuss poverty and inequality measurement implications for monotonically decreasing and inverted-U compliance-income relationships. The authors demonstrate that the latent income effect on the probability of compliance can be estimated from information on response rates across geographic areas. On implementing the method on the Current Population Survey for the United States, they find that the compliance probability falls monotonically as income rises. Correcting for non-response appreciably increases mean income and inequality, but has only a small impact on poverty incidence up to poverty lines common in the United States.


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