Income Measurement Error in Surveys: A Review

By Jeffrey C. Moore, Linda L. Stinson, E. Welniak. 2000

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Best Practices in Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Class in Psychological Research (2013, background): “, those in the top quintile of the income distribution, Nelson, 1993), recent reviews do not find a consistent association between income level and income response bias (Bound et al., 2001; Moore et al., 2000).”
Closing the Gap: The Effect of a Targeted, Tuition-Free Promise on College Choices of High-Achieving, Low-Income Students (2018, background): “5Previous research indicates students are inaccurate in these self-reports and that, more generally, administrative data can be more accurate than surveys (Moore et al. 2000; Meyer et al. 2015).”
Is children’s free school meal ‘eligibility’ a good proxy for family income? (2010, background): “( 2000 ) found very modest underreporting bias from reports of wage and salary sources, small and inconsistently signed bias (indicating neither under‐ nor over‐reporting) and quite low random error from reports of wage and salary amounts, consistent underreporting bias in reports of both benefit so”
Recall length and measurement error in agricultural surveys (2020, background): “, 2009; Liedholm, 1991) and income measurement (Moore et al., 2000).”
Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption (2003, unknown): “This view is certainly consistent with the high rates of non-response in the CPS that are listed in Table 2 of Moore et al. (1997).”