The Household Expenditure Enquiry of the Ministry of Labour: Variability in the 1953-54 Enquiry

Kemsley, W. F. F.

doi:10.2307/2985204

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“…In the 1987 CE, expenditures in the second week of the diary were eleven percent below those in the first week (Silberstein and Scott, 1991). These patterns are typically attributed to 'diary fatigue' (for example, Silberstein andScott, 1991, andStatistics Canada, 1999) and they have been known for a long time (e.g., Kemsley, 1961;Turner 1961;Sudman and Ferber, 1971;McWhinney and Champion, 1974).…”

Section: Problems With Diary Methodsmentioning

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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: Problems With Diary Methodsmentioning

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Asking Households About Expenditures: What Have We Learned?

Crossley¹,

Winter²

2013

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“…There is no evidence of interviewer variability in the record-book data, although it is known to occur if the response rate is relatively low (Kemsley, 1960). The distribution for Type 2 data is in marked contrast with the distributions for record books and for demographic data.…”

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“…Should the survey induce a general change in behaviour, whether in spending or in the accuracy with which recording is made, the change would remain undetected by the tests described in this paper. For example, the reported level of expenditure varies during the course of record keeping (Kemsley, 1961), but previous tests (Kemsley, 1960, Table IV) failed to disclose evidence of interviewer variability in the relative levels between weeks within the same record. Further, if the variance differs from interviewer to interviewer, the present tests will not detect this variation.…”

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“…Of the 796 housewives interviewed in Survey No.6 only 537 (or 67·5 per cent) were able to give definite figures of how much they thought they had spent in total during the previous calendar week. Few housewives keep regular accounts (Kemsley, 1959), so that this may indicate that about two-thirds of housewives work fairly closely to a fixed budget. That this is something which is reasonably definite and not subjective is borne out by the absence of significant interviewer variability in the proportion who were able to give such a figure (Line 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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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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“…It is possible, however, to obtain approximations for broad categories of expenditure by making use of model IV. The principle underlying this, namely that rough estimates of variation can be constructed by aggregating household expenditures for a primary unit without correction for response variations, has been employed in an earlier paper (Kemsley, 1961). The earlier study was concerned with differences between expenditures in the three weeks covered by the record books in the 1953-54 enquiry.…”

Section: Sampling Errors In the Household Expenditure Enquiry Of1953-54mentioning

confidence: 99%