Estimating Welfare Indices: Household Weights and Sample Design
23 Pages Posted: 21 Feb 2008
Date Written: June2000
Abstract
The techniques of simple random sampling are seldom appropriate in the empirical analysis of income distributions. Various types of weighting schemes are usually required either from the point of view of welfare-economic considerations (the mapping of household/family distributions into individual distributions) or from the point of view of sample design. The different types of weights have different implications for the sampling distribution of estimators of welfare indices.
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Cowell, Frank A. and Jenkins, Stephen P., Estimating Welfare Indices: Household Weights and Sample Design (June2000). LSE STICERD Research Paper No. 48, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1094794
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