IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/crr/crrwps/wp2005-7.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Validation Study of Earnings Data in the SIPP – Do Older Workers Have Larger Measurement Error?

Author

Listed:
  • Peter T. Gottschalk
  • Minh Huynh

Abstract

The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is a potentially useful data set to study earnings and retirement dynamics of older workers. Respondents’ self-reported work and earnings in the SIPP are, however, likely to be measured with error, and this measurement error may be particularly large for older respondents who work non-standard hours. We explore the extent of measurement error by comparing SIPP employment and earnings data to administrative records contained in the matched Detail Earning Record.

Suggested Citation

  • Peter T. Gottschalk & Minh Huynh, 2005. "Validation Study of Earnings Data in the SIPP – Do Older Workers Have Larger Measurement Error?," Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College wp2005-7, Center for Retirement Research, revised May 2005.
    • Handle: RePEc:crr:crrwps:wp2005-7
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://crr.bc.edu/working-papers/validation-study-of-earnings-data-in-the-sipp-do-older-workers-have-larger-measurement-error/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. ChangHwan Kim & Christopher R. Tamborini, 2014. "Response Error in Earnings," Sociological Methods & Research, , vol. 43(1), pages 39-72, February.
    2. Julian Cristia & Jonathan A. Schwabish, 2007. "Measurement Error in the SIPP: Evidence from Matched Administrative Records: Working Paper 2007-03," Working Papers 18322, Congressional Budget Office.
    3. Peter Valet & Jule Adriaans & Stefan Liebig, 2019. "Comparing survey data and administrative records on gross earnings: nonreporting, misreporting, interviewer presence and earnings inequality," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 53(1), pages 471-491, January.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:crr:crrwps:wp2005-7. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Amy Grzybowski or Christopher F Baum (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/crrbcus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.