SIMILARITY IN RESPONSE BEHAVIOR BETWEEN HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS - AN APPLICATION TO INCOME EVALUATION

In many household surveys questions are posed to one of the members of the household, assuming that he represents the household. For observe d behavior this is mostly permissible; however, for attitudes and opin ions, the representativeness is dubious. In this note we report our fi nding that for subjective questions of the Leyden-type both adult part ners appear to answer almost identically, (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B. V. All rights reserved.