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Identifying and Evaluating Sample Selection Bias in Consumer Payment Surveys
This paper develops a two-stage statistical analysis to identify and assess the effect of a sample selection bias associated with an individual’s household role. The methodology is applied to the 2012 Survey of Consumer Payment Choice. Survey responses to a series of questions about the respondent’s role in household finances are combined and adjusted for response error to estimate a latent variable that represents each individual’s share of household responsibility. The distribution of this variable among survey respondents suggests that the sampling procedure favors household members ...