We have developed and implemented a new sampling strategy to better represent very wealthy individuals in the German … the top end of the wealth distribution in Germany. The SOEP-P population has about 21 times higher net wealth on average …

little has been known about them. As a result, the full extent of wealth concentration in Germany was unknown. To close the … previously it was thought to only be 59 percent. The richest percent of the population has around 35 percent of the wealth, not … million euros. These individuals do not only differ from the rest of the population in terms of wealth: They are also more …

We evaluate how nonresponse affects conclusions drawn from survey data and consider how researchers can reliably test … and correct for nonresponse bias. To do so, we examine a survey on labor market conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic … sources, allowing us to observe a ground truth for participants and nonparticipants. We find evidence of large nonresponse …

processes, the interview modes, the oversampling techniques, the unit and item non-response rates and how it is dealt with them …The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about house-hold wealth (real and financial … framework for our analysis is the "Guidelines for Micro Statistics on Household Wealth" from the OECD (2013). We have two main …

Wealth surveys tend to underestimate wealth concentration at the top due to the "missing rich" problem. We propose a … new way of improving the credibility of wealth surveys: We make them consistent with tabulated income tax data. This is … years and collects data on both income and wealth. Consistency is achieved by calibrating survey weights using the income …

processes, the interview modes, the oversampling techniques, the unit and item non-response rates and how it is dealt with them …The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about household wealth (real and financial … first present a synopsis of cross-country differences, which is the core of the paper. We will compare the sampling …