Household consumption equivalence scales: Some estimates from New Zealand household expenditure and income survey data

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 141-150

  Chatterjee, Srikanta ^a   Michelini, Claudio ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Household Expenditure and Income Survey; Klein Rubin utility function; Sandwich (white) estimator; Weighted least squares

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001315151     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-842X.00016     Document Type: Article

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