Interviewer Variability in Expenditure Surveys

Kemsley, W. F. F.

doi:10.2307/2343440

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“…Models of survey response behavior suggest that written surveys enhance respondents' understanding of survey questions relative to oral presentations. Kemsley (1965) noted that expenditure data collected by self-completed diaries does not exhibit statistically significant interviewer effects while data collected by recall interviews does (the interviewer still plays a role with the diaries, in that they drop off, explain, review and collect them). While he interpreted this as sign of lower quality (e.g.…”

Section: Survey Modementioning

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Asking Households About Expenditures: What Have We Learned?

Crossley¹,

Winter²

2013

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When designing household surveys, including surveys that measure consumption expenditure, numerous choices need to be made. Which survey mode should be used? Do recall questions or diaries provide more reliable expenditure data? How should the concept of a household be defined? How should the length of the recall period, the level of aggregation of expenditure items, and the response format be chosen? How are responses affected by incentives? Can computer-assisted surveys be used to reduce or correct response error in real time? In this paper, we provide a selective review of the literature on these questions. We also suggest some promising directions for future research.

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Section: Survey Modementioning

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Asking Households About Expenditures: What Have We Learned?

Crossley¹,

Winter²

2013

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“…Abel‐Smith and Townsend's conclusions were based on the analysis of a sample of the returns to the 1953–1954 and 1960 Ministry of Labour household expenditure surveys. The surveys themselves, known collectively from 1957 to 2001 as the Family Expenditure Survey (FES), were sufficiently innovative to attract methodological scrutiny in this journal: see, for instance, Kemsley (, ).…”

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The Poor and the Poorest, 50 years on: Evidence from British Household Expenditure Surveys of the 1950s and 1960s

Gazeley

Rufrancos

Newell

et al. 2016

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society

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We re-explore Abel-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large increase in poverty between 1953-4 and 1960, a period of relatively strong economic growth. Our re-examination is a first exploitation of the data extracted from the recent digitisation of the Ministry of Labour's Enquiry into Household Expenditure in 1953-4. First we closely replicate their results. We find that Abel-Smith and Townsend's method generated a greater rise in poverty than other reasonable methods. Using contemporary standard poverty lines, we find that the relative poverty rate grew only a little at most, and the absolute poverty rate fell, between 1953-4 and 1961, as might be expected in a period of rising real incomes and steady inequality. We also extend the poverty rate time series of Goodman and Webb (1995) back to 1953-4.

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