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Activity Number:
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66
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Sunday, August 6, 2006 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Survey Research Methods
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| Abstract - #305994 |
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Title:
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A Study of IRS Administrative Payroll as a Substitute for Missing Payroll
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Author(s):
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Melvin McCullough*+
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Companies:
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U.S. Census Bureau
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Address:
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4700 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD, 20746,
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Keywords:
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general imputation ; replication ; bias ; single units
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Abstract:
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The Business Expenses Survey (BES) collects operating expense data of businesses in the retail, wholesale and services sectors of the United States economy. Traditionally, missing payroll expense data have been imputed using a "ratio of identicals." This method of imputing for missing payroll takes a ratio of the weighted sum of non-missing payroll to the weighted sum of operating expenses for respondents within an industry and multiplies this result by reported operating expenses to obtain an estimate for missing payroll for a given case. The availability of IRS administrative payroll data as a possible alternative to the traditional ratio imputation resulted in a study. Our objective was to determine if IRS administrative payroll could be reliably substituted for missing BES payroll for single-establishment businesses. For each industry, some of the payroll respond
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