The 2015 and 2016 diaries of consumer payment choice: technical appendix

Angrisani, Marco; Foster, Kevin; Hitczenko, Marcin

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The 2015 and 2016 diaries of consumer payment choice: technical appendix

Abstract: This document serves as the technical appendix to the 2015 and 2016 editions of the Diary of Consumer Payment Choice (DCPC) administered by the Center for Economic and Social Research. The DCPC is a study designed primarily to collect data on financial transactions over a three-day period by U.S. consumers ages 18 and older. In this data report, we detail the technical aspects of the survey design, implementation, and analysis.

Keywords: survey design; sample selection; survey cleaning; raking; poststratification estimates;

JEL Classification: D12; E4; D14;