8. Estimating welfare indices: Household weights and sample design

Abstract

The techniques of simple random sampling are seldom appropriate in the empirical analysis of income distributions. Various types of weighting schemes are usually required either from the point of view of welfare-economic considerations (the mapping of household/family distributions into individual distributions) or from the point of view of sample design. The different types of weights have different implications for the sampling distribution of estimators of welfare indices.

Citation

Cowell, F.A. and Jenkins, S.P. (2003), "8. Estimating welfare indices: Household weights and sample design", Inequality, Welfare and Poverty: Theory and Measurement (Research on Economic Inequality, Vol. 9), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 147-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1049-2585(03)09009-4