TY - JOUR T1 - Improving the Quality of Economic Data: Lessons from the HRS and AHEAD JF - Journal of the American Statistical Association Y1 - 1997 A1 - Juster, F. Thomas A1 - James P Smith KW - Methodology AB - Missing data are an increasingly important problem in economic surveys, especially when trying to measure household wealth. However, some relatively simple new survey methods such as follow-up brackets appear to appreciably improve the quality of household economic data. Brackets represent partial responses to asset questions and apparently significantly reduce item nonresponse. Brackets also provide a remedy to deal with nonignorable nonresponse bias, a critical problem with economic survey data. PB - 92 VL - 92 UR - https://ideas.repec.org/p/wpa/wuwpla/0402010.html IS - 440 N1 - ProCite field 3 : Survey Research Center, U MI; RAND U4 - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology/Microeconomic Data Management/Survey Methods ER -