Understanding and improving data quality relating to low income households :Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research: The University of Melbourne

Date created: 27 September 2011
Last modified: April 4, 2016 4:25 PM

Understanding and improving data quality relating to low income households

The project has three objectives:

To better understand the factors behind the apparently low incomes recorded by many Australian households, in particular, in major ABS data collections, and the implications of these for income distribution and 'poverty' analysis.
To identify the extent to which these arise from the concepts of income used in these surveys which may result in the data being inappropriate for other analysis; and the degree to which it can be ascribed to inadequate reporting of incomes.
To provide advice on the magnitude of any problem which may exist; how the existence of such problems should be treated in income distribution and related poverty analysis, including any actions which should be taken by analysts to derive data appropriate for the purposes of their analysis; and consider methodologies which can be adopted to reduce the impact of any identified problems in future data collections.

Project is complete.

Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research

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The University of Melbourne
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