The SHARELIFE survey contains a set of questions aimed to collect monetary information, such as incomes from work, pension benefits, and house values. Given the retrospective structure of the questionnaire, these amounts refer to different points in time and different currencies. Heterogeneity in time and currencies raises comparability problems: the purpose of this paper is to describe a procedure aimed to generate comparable amounts for the monetary variables in SHARELIFE.
Cross-country comparison of monetary values from SHARELIFE
TREVISAN, ELISABETTA;
2010
Abstract
The SHARELIFE survey contains a set of questions aimed to collect monetary information, such as incomes from work, pension benefits, and house values. Given the retrospective structure of the questionnaire, these amounts refer to different points in time and different currencies. Heterogeneity in time and currencies raises comparability problems: the purpose of this paper is to describe a procedure aimed to generate comparable amounts for the monetary variables in SHARELIFE.
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