Some Experiments in Methods of Conducting Family Expenditure Surveys

Kemsley, W. F. F.; Nicholson, J. L.

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“…Analogous divergences were found by Kemsley and Nicholson (1960) in certain experimental surveys made in 1950 and 1951. Table 4 of that paper shows considerable differences between expenditure estimates derived from (1) record books, (2) last week's spending and (3) the product of the last payment and its frequency.…”

Section: Examples Of Memory Variationsupporting

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Interviewer Variability in Expenditure Surveys

Kemsley¹

1965

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General)

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Summary The collection of data on consumers' expenditure by social surveys is, nowadays, very widespread, both for purposes of government and of commerce. Most surveys concerned with expenditure make use of interviewers, and this in turn leads to the appearance of interviewer variability in the resulting data. This paper discusses some of the limitations of expenditure surveys, with particular reference to their dependence on memory. This is a potential source of interviewer variability, and the appearance of such variation is treated in this paper as a criterion by which to judge the relative merits of various methods of obtaining expenditure data.

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Section: Examples Of Memory Variationsupporting

confidence: 79%

“…Of the items entered first, and therefore presumably mentioned first by the housewife, 486 (or 63 per cent) related to food. This is not altogether surprising since over 80 per cent of the expenditure on food is made by the housewife (Kemsley and Nicholson, 1960, Table 1).…”

Section: An Experiments With Questions Covering a Broad Expenditure Fieldmentioning

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Interviewer Variability in Expenditure Surveys

Kemsley¹

1965

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General)

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“…4 This section does not review the literature from cognitive psychology on the effects of question framing and other issues related to survey design generally; we focus instead on issues and evidence specific to household consumption expenditure. 5 The developed country studies often compare recall to diary methods (see, for example, Neter, 1970;Neter and Waksburg, 1964;McWhinney and Champion, 1974;Kemsley and Nicholson, 1960;Gieseman, 1987). More recent work examines other dimensions such as bracketing and question wording/prompting, as in Comerford et al (2009).…”

Section: Issues In the Measurement Of Consumption Through Surveysmentioning

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Methods of household consumption measurement through surveys: Experimental results from Tanzania

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Friedman³

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Journal of Development Economics

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“…Although some reports suggest that recording in diaries gives more accurate data, especially for frequently purchased items like food (for example, see Branch, 1994; Republic of China, 1990), studies are hampered by lack of data on actual expenditures. This makes it difficult to interpret the comparisons of diary and recall surveys (Kemsley and Nicholson, 1960; McWhinney and Champion, 1974). These comparisons are also clouded because they vary not only in terms of data collection methods – diary versus recall – but also in terms of whether the time frame for the reporting is bounded by visits from the interviewer.…”

Section: Measurement Errors In Diary and Recall Surveys Of Househmentioning

confidence: 99%