Cultural consensus analysis is a statistical method that can be used to assess participant responses to survey questions. The technique concurrently estimates the knowledge of each survey participant and estimates the culturally correct answer to each question asked, based on the existence of consensus among survey participants. The main objectives of this paper are to present the cultural cons...

This paper discusses how household panel surveys can be informative about the intergenerational transmission of poverty. We consider issues both of data and of the statistical methods that may be applied to those data. Although the data focus is on panel surveys from developed countries, we also briefly consider data availability in developing countries. We set out a list of survey data require...

This article presents the results of a panel survey designed to determine season travel ticket use in the metropolitan area of Valencia, Spain. The procedure consisted of surveying a randomly selected panel of season ticket users within a given study area in spring 2002, fall 2002, and late winter 2002–2003. A total of 143 respondents were recruited by phone calls from existing users of season ...

The data presented in this article are related to the research paper titled, "The impact of a household biogas programme on energy use and expenditure in East Java" (A.S. Bedi, R. Sparrow, L. Tasciotti, 2017) [1]. This Data in Brief article presents two rounds of survey data conducted in 2011 and 2012 for a panel of 677 dairy farm households in the province of East Java, Indonesia. The survey r...

This survey aims at providing the reader with a thread through the literature on the topic of panel econometrics of labour supply, reporting also on the evaluation of the data used in these studies, and summarizing their substantive results. It documents the present trend away from models that take advantage of panel data almost exclusively in order to control for unobserved heterogeneity, towa...

Two incentive experiments were conducted in different online access panels. Experiment 1 was carried out in a commercial market research panel. It examined whether three different types of promised incentives (redeemable bonus points, money lottery and gift lottery), four different amounts of bonus points or raffled money, and two different denominations of raffled money influenced response qua...

Statistical methodology has been developed to decompose total variance into sources of variation. These sources of variation are usually referred to as components of variance. There are different reasons for attempting to produce variance components. In models decomposing the variance is often done in order to increase the accuracy of the model. In the finite population setting, variance is usu...

Riots, murders, lynchings and other forms of local violence are costly to security forces and society at large. Identifying risk factors and forecasting where local violence is most likely to occur should help allocate scarce peacekeeping and policing resources. Most forecasting exercises of this kind rely on structural or event data, but these have many limitations in the poorest and most war-...

Previous work by the author used Markov Latent Class Analysis (MLCA) to make aggregate estimates of the underreporting of household expenditure by category (e.g. clothes, furniture, and electricity) by exploiting the four interview, rotating panel design of the Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey (CE). This analysis collapsed a few years of the CE into a pooled single panel. Estimates from th...