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June 2006
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Estimation of the Distribution of Hourly Pay from Household Survey Data: The Use of Missing Data Methods to Handle Measurement Error
Type: Journal Articles
Authors: Beissel-Durrant, Gabriele and Chris Skinner
Published in: Survey Methodology
Volume, issue, pages: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 25-36
Previous version: cemmap Working Papers [Details]

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Measurement errors in survey data on hourly pay may lead to serious upward bias in low pay estimates. We consider how to correct for this bias when auxiliary accurately measured data are available for a subsample. An application to the UK Labour Force Survey is described. The use of fractional imputation, nearest neighbour imputation, predictive mean matching and propensity score weighting are considered. Properties of point estimators are compared both theoretically and by simulation. A fractional predictive mean matching imputation approach is advocated. It performs similarly to propensity score weighting, but displays slight advantages of robustness and efficiency.

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