Downloads

Image representing the file: Bootstrapping%20paper%2C%20DWP%2C%20Jan%202017.pdf

Bootstrapping%20paper%2C%20DWP%2C%20Jan%202017.pdf

PDF | 875.1 KB

This note was written for the Department for Work and Pensions, to help assess the potential for refining the bootstrap methodology used to produce confidence intervals for the Households Below Average Income statistics.

Authors

Mike Brewer

Mike Brewer

Robert Joyce
Robert Joyce

Deputy Director

Robert is a Deputy Director. His work focuses on primarily on the labour market, income and wealth inequality, and the design of the welfare system.

Person graphic

Olga Gdula

Report details

Publisher
IFS

Suggested citation

M, Brewer and O, Gdula and R, Joyce. (2017). Refining the bootstrap methodology for HBAI statistics. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/refining-bootstrap-methodology-hbai-statistics (accessed: 25 April 2024).

Grant

Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), 2015-2020

More from IFS

Understand this issue

Nice houses with city in the background

Social mobility and wealth

presentation
IFS researchers shared findings from ESRC-funded research on social mobility and its drivers.

12 December 2023

Policy analysis

School

Major challenges for education in Wales

report
This report examines the major challenges for education in Wales, including low outcomes across a range of measures and high levels of inequality.

21 March 2024

Academic research