What if a popular data set that has generated a long stream of literature has been misunderstood and has led to misleading inferences? In this paper, we use the case of household expenditure in the Indonesian National Socio-Economic Survey data, SUSENAS, which started over 50 years ago. Appropriate use of SUSENAS for policy analysis requires an understanding that the expenditure variable in SUS…
What if a popular data set that has generated a long stream of literature has been misunderstood and has led to misleading inferences? In this paper, we use the case of household expenditure in the Indonesian National Socio-Economic Survey data, SUSENAS, which started over 50 years ago. Appropriate use of SUSENAS for policy analysis requires an understanding that the expenditure variable in SUS…