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Activity Number:
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35
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Sunday, July 29, 2007 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Survey Research Methods
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| Abstract - #308986 |
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Title:
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Imputation of Rental Equivalence in the Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey
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Author(s):
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Barry Steinberg*+ and Eric Keil and David Swanson and Shirley Tsai and Garner Thesia
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Companies:
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Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Address:
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2 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, DC, 20212,
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Keywords:
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Rental Equivalence ; Owned Home ; Imputation
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Abstract:
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Data for the rental equivalence of an owned home is collected quarterly by the Consumer Expenditure Interview Survey. The question asked is "If someone were to rent this home today, how much do you think it would rent for monthly, unfurnished and without utilities"? Historically, response rates for this important item have been low. We designed an estimator that will impute rental equivalence values where missings are recorded. After testing several different types of models, we chose a multiple level linear regression model to replace the existing hotdeck method. This paper will focus on a description of the final model that was chosen to be implemented.
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