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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Brummet, Quentina | Flanagan-Doyle, Deniseb | Mitchell, Joshuab | Voorheis, Johnb; * | Erhard, Laurac | McBride, Brettc
Affiliations: [a] NORC at the University of Chicago, CA, USA | [b] US Census Bureau, Washington, DC 20233, USA | [c] Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: John Voorheis, US Census Bureau, 4600 Silver Hill Road, Washington, DC 20233, USA. Tel.: +1 301 763 5326; E-mail: john.l.voorheis@census.gov.
Note: [1] This paper is released to inform interested parties of research and to encourage discussion. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the potential of linking administrative records income data to the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE). We match individual responses to CE survey data collected from 2013–2014 to IRS administrative data in order to analyze CE questions on wages. We find that while wage amounts are largely in alignment between the CE and administrative records in the middle of the wage distribution, there is evidence that wages are over-reported to the CE at the bottom of the wage distribution and under-reported at the top of the wage distribution. In addition to the analysis using person-based linkages, we also match responding and non-responding CE sample units to the universe of IRS 1040 tax returns by address to examine non-response bias. We find that non-responding households are substantially richer than responding households, and that very high income households are less likely to respond to the CE.
Keywords: Nonresponse bias, measurement error, income, Consumer Expenditure Survey
DOI: 10.3233/SJI-180448
Journal: Statistical Journal of the IAOS, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 513-520, 2018
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