Estimating welfare indices: household weights and sample design

The techniques of simple random sampling are seldom appropriate in the empirical analysis of income distributions. Various types of weighting schemes are usually required either from the point of view of welfare-economic considerations (the mapping of household/family distributions into individual distributions) or from the point of view of sample design. The different types of weights have different implications for the sampling distribution of estimators of welfare indices.

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Year of publication:	2000
Authors:	Cowell, Frank A. ; Jenkins, Stephen P.
Publisher:	Berlin : Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
Subject:	Disparitätsmaß \| Einkommensverteilung \| Wohlfahrtseffekt \| Index \| Stichprobenverfahren \| Theorie \| Welfare index \| inequality \| poverty \| sample \| inference

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Series:	DIW Discussion Papers ; 219
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	848563778 [GVK] hdl:10419/18204 [Handle] RePEc:diw:diwwpp:dp219 [RePEc]
Classification:	D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; C13 - Estimation
Source:	EconStor