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Item Non-Response on Income and Wealth Questions

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Riphahn, Regina T. () (University of Basel, CEPR, DIW Berlin and IZA Bonn)
Serfling, Oliver (University of Basel)

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Abstract

After reviewing the literature on item non-response we focus on three issues: First, is there significant heterogeneity in item non-response across financial questions and in the association of covariates with item non-response across outcomes? Second, can the informational value of surveys be improved by matching interviewers and respondents based on their characteristics? Third, how does offering a "don't know" answer option affect respondent behavior? The questions are answered based on detailed survey and interviewer data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, considering a broad set of income and wealth outcomes.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 573.

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Keywords: item non-response survey quality interviewer effects income and wealth

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