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Respondent behaviour in panel studies: a case study for income-nonresponse by means of the British Household Panel Study (BHPS)

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Series: ISER Working Paper Series
Series number: 2003-08
Publication date: 1 March 2003

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Many validation studies deal with item-nonresponse and measurement error in earning data. In this paper we explore motives of respondents for the failure to reveal earnings using the British Household Panel (BHPS). BHPS collects socio-economic information of private households in Great Britain. We explain the evolution of income-nonresponse in the BHPS and demonstrate the importance of a discrimination between refusing the income-statement or don't know.

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Schrapler, J. (2003) Respondent behaviour in panel studies: a case study for income-nonresponse by means of the British Household Panel Study (BHPS), ISER Working Paper Series, No.2003-08. Colchester: University of Essex

@techreport{iser2003-08,
        author = {Schrapler, J.},
        title = {Respondent behaviour in panel studies: a case study for income-nonresponse by means of the British Household Panel Study (BHPS)},
        institution = {University of Essex},
        number = {No.2003-08},
        type = {ISER Working Paper Series},
        year = 2003,
        address = {Colchester}
        }

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