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Estimating Measurement Error in Annual Job Earnings: A Comparison of Survey and Administrative Data

John Maron Abowd · Martha Harrison Stinson

150 citations0/0 files storedThe Review of Economics and Statistics

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Survey Methodology and Nonresponse Labor market dynamics and wage inequality Survey Sampling and Estimation Techniques

Abstract

Abstract We propose a new methodology that does not assume a prior specification of the statistical properties of the measurement errors and treats all sources as noisy measures of some underlying true value. The unobservable true value can be represented as a weighted average of all available measures, using weights that must be specified a priori unless there has been a truth audit. The Census Bureau's Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) survey jobs are linked to Social Security Administration earnings data, creating two potential annual earnings observations. The reliability statistics for both sources are quite similar except for cases where the SIPP used imputations for some missing monthly earnings reports.

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