Estimating the Distribution of Household Wealth: Methods for Adjusting Survey Data Estimates Using National Accounts and Rich List Data
提出一种同时处理调查数据中单位无回答和报告误差的新方法，结合幂律模型和校准插补，利用国民账户和富豪榜数据调整四个欧元区国家的家庭财富分布估计。
Income and wealth surveys are usually affected by unit non‐response and reporting errors, which contribute to a mismatch with macroeconomic figures from national accounts. In this paper, we develop a novel allocation method to address these two issues simultaneously, when only limited external information is available. The proposed approach combines information from a power law (Pareto) model with imputation procedures based on calibration. We apply the proposed simultaneous approach to produce distributional indicators for four Euro‐Area countries that are consistent with their national accounts. In particular, we use data from the 2014 Finnish, French, German, and Italian Household Finance and Consumption Survey and rich list data from Forbes or national press sources, along with household sector aggregates from national accounts, as auxiliary sources of information. A bootstrap procedure is also applied to evaluate the precision of the final estimates.