Matching of income and expenditure data by means of nonparametric estimation of Engel curves

Decoster A., De Swerdt K. and Van Camp G. (2004), Matching of income and expenditure data by means of nonparametric estimation of Engel curves, Eindrapport DWTC-project AG/01/079, Leuven, Centrum voor Economische Studiën.
ABSTRACT

In DWTC-project AG/01/30 use was made of statistical matching techniques to attribute fiscal information from an administrative fiscal file to households in the household budget survey. In the current project, we impute consumption expenditure data from the household budget survey in a fiscal file by means of semiparametric estimation of Engel curves on expenditure survey data (Robinson, 1988).