eprintid: 14716
rev_number: 33
eprint_status: archive
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datestamp: 2009-03-03 13:26:36
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type: working_paper
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creators_name: Chesher, A.
creators_name: Schluter, C.
creators_id: ACHES26
creators_id: 
title: Welfare measurement and measurement error
ispublished: pub
subjects: 12042
subjects: 12000
divisions: F24
keywords: JEL classification: D31, 132, C14. Inequality measurement, poverty indices, measurement error
note: Please see http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/12664 for a related item
abstract: The approximate effects of measurement error on a variety of
measures of inequality and poverty are derived. They are shown to depend on the measurement error variance and functionals of the error contaminated income distribution, but not on the form of the measurement error distribution, and to be accurate within a rich class of error free income distributions and measurement error distributions. The functionals of the error contaminated income distribution that approximate the measurement error induced distortions can be estimated. So it is possible to investigate the sensitivity of welfare measures to alternative amounts of measurement error and, when an estimate of the measurement error variance is available, to calculate corrected welfare measures. The methods are illustrated in an application using Indonesian household expenditure data.
date: 2001-04
publisher: Institute for Fiscal Studies
official_url: http://www.cemmap.ac.uk/publications.php
vfaculties: VSHS
oa_status: green
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
lyricists_name: Chesher, A
lyricists_id: ACHES26
full_text_status: public
series: cemmap Working Papers
number: CWP03/
place_of_pub: London, UK
citation:        Chesher, A.;    Schluter, C.;      (2001)    Welfare measurement and measurement error.                    (cemmap Working Papers  CWP03/). Institute for Fiscal Studies: London, UK.       Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/14716/1/14716.pdf