The sensitivity of economic statistics to coding errors in personal identifiers

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 133-152

  Abowd, John M ^a   Vilhuber, Lars ^b  

^a School of Industrial and Labor Relations   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow statistics; Job creation; Job flows; Probabilistic matching; Quality Workforce Indicators; Tenure; Transitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 17544375809     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/073500104000000677     Document Type: Article

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