Estimating income poverty in the presence of missing data and measurement error

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-72

  Nicoletti, Cheti ^a   Peracchi, Franco ^b   Foliano, Francesca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Misclassification error; Partial identification; Survey nonresponse

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449241299     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jbes.2010.07185     Document Type: Article

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