Identification, Characteristics and Impact of Faked Interviews in Surveys An analysis by means of genuine fakes in the raw data of SOEP To the best of our knowledge, most of the few methodological studies which analyze the impact of faked interviews on survey results are based on “artificial fakes” generated by project students in a “laboratory environment”. In contrast, panel data provide a un...

This paper provides a comprehensive description of an integrated system of cross-sectional and longitudinal weighting for rotational household panel surveys. To be concrete and detailed, it develops the weighting procedures with reference to the EU-SILC integrated design. EU-SILC (Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) covers data and data sources of various types: cross-sectional and long...

The Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) has been a source of longitudinal data since 1993. Respondents are surveyed twice a year—once on labour and once on income—for six consecutive years. Each six-year period is called a panel, and new panels are begun every three years. Presently, longitudinal data are available from two complete panels, 1993 to 1998 and 1996 to 2001, which have been...