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Table 3 Extent of benefit misreporting

From: Welfare receipt misreporting in survey data and its consequences for state dependence estimates: new insights from linked administrative and survey data

Estimation sample (N)

21,999

…thereof with benefit receipt (administrative data, N)

7102

  …thereof without reported benefit receipt in the survey data (underreporting, N)

613

   …thereof with underreporting in only one wave (N)

428

   …thereof with underreporting in two waves (N)

112

   …thereof with underreporting in more than two waves (N)

73

Underreporting rate

0.086

…thereof without benefit receipt (administrative data, N)

14,897

  …thereof with reported benefit receipt in the survey data (overreporting, N)

238

Overreporting rate

0.016

  1. Source: PASS_0614_v1 & LHG V08.01.00 – 201504