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Measuring Total Household Spending in a Monthly Internet Survey: Evidence from the American Life Panel

Year: 2012

Type: book

Abstract: Beginning in May 2009 we fielded a monthly Internet survey designed to measure total household spending as the aggregate of about 40 spending components.This paper reports on a number of outcomes from 30 waves of data collection.These outcomes include sample attrition, indicators of data quality such as item nonresponse and the variance in total spending, and substantive results such as the trajectory of total spending and the trajectories of some components of spending.We conclude that high-frequency surveying for total spending is feasible and that the resulting data show expected patterns of levels and change.

Source: RAND Corporation eBooks

DOI: 10.7249/wr939

Authors: Michael Hurd, Susann Rohwedder

Institutions: RAND Corporation, National Bureau of Economic Research, State University of New York, Stony Brook University

Language: English

Topic: Survey Methodology and Nonresponse

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: U.S. Social Security Administration, National Institute on Aging

Award: G4607009072