TY - UNPB

T1 - Cumulation of Cross-Section Surveys

T2 - Evaluation of Alternative Concepts for the Cumulated Continuous Household Budget Surveys (LWR) 1999 until 2003 compared to the Sample Survey of Income and Expenditures (EVS) 2003

AU - Merz, Joachim

AU - Stolze, Henning

PY - 2010

Y1 - 2010

N2 - With the development of household budget systems and with regard to the requirements of the European Union with new EU-SILC approaches, the cumulation of cross-section surveys to an integrated information system is recently discussed and required. In particular the reconstruction of household budget surveys should deliver yearly results as well multi-annual sufficient large samples to allow in depth analyses. This study contributes by a generalconceptual foundation of the cumulation of cross-sections and an application which in particular evaluates the new cumulation concept with actual large official samples: the cross sectional cumulation of five yearly Continuous Household Budget Surveys (Laufende Wirtschaftsrechnungen, LWR) which will be compared to the large quinquennial Sample Survey of Income and Expenditures (Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe, EVS) of the German Federal Statistical Office. There with the sensitivity of the cumulation concept with its alternatives is evaluated for private household consumption expenditures of selectedexpenditure groups. A recommendation concludes.

AB - With the development of household budget systems and with regard to the requirements of the European Union with new EU-SILC approaches, the cumulation of cross-section surveys to an integrated information system is recently discussed and required. In particular the reconstruction of household budget surveys should deliver yearly results as well multi-annual sufficient large samples to allow in depth analyses. This study contributes by a generalconceptual foundation of the cumulation of cross-sections and an application which in particular evaluates the new cumulation concept with actual large official samples: the cross sectional cumulation of five yearly Continuous Household Budget Surveys (Laufende Wirtschaftsrechnungen, LWR) which will be compared to the large quinquennial Sample Survey of Income and Expenditures (Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe, EVS) of the German Federal Statistical Office. There with the sensitivity of the cumulation concept with its alternatives is evaluated for private household consumption expenditures of selectedexpenditure groups. A recommendation concludes.

KW - Economics, empirical/statistics

KW - cumulation of cross sections

KW - temporary cumulation

KW - adjustment by information theory

KW - consumption expenditures

KW - Continuous Household Budget Surveys (Laufende Wirtschaftsrechnungen, LWR)

KW - Sample Survey of Income and Expenditures (Einkommensund Verbrauchsstichprobe, EVS) of the German Federal Statistical Office

KW - cumulation of cross sections

KW - temporary cumulation

KW - adjustment by information theory

KW - consumption expenditures

KW - Continuous Household Budget Surveys (Laufende Wirtschaftsrechnungen, LWR)

KW - Sample Survey of Income and Expenditures (Einkommensund Verbrauchsstichprobe, EVS) of the German Federal Statistical Office

KW - Gender and Diversity

M3 - Working papers

T3 - FFB-Diskussionspapier

BT - Cumulation of Cross-Section Surveys

PB - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe

CY - Lüneburg

ER -