caa a22 4500 467917353 CHVBK 20180406152906.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11205-005-4925-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11205-005-4925-9 Do Household Heads Speak for the Household? A Research Note [Elektronische Daten] [Jeffrey Bookwalter, Brandon Fuller, Douglas Dalenberg] Many recent household surveys include questions about respondents' subjective well-being. Nearly all of them, however, pose these questions only to the household head. This paper addresses an issue with practical and methodological concerns. Can survey designers ask only household heads and expect them to accurately represent the living conditions of the entire household? Using South Africa's 1998 October Household Survey (OHS) to estimate econometric models of subjective well-being, this paper finds that the response of household heads is determined largely by factors shared by the entire household - housing, for example - and not on those experienced primarily by the head - individual health status, for example. This suggests that South African household heads are truly reporting household well-being, rather than their individual level of satisfaction. While this result probably cannot be widely generalized, the testing methodology is replicable and could be applied to similarly structured data sets. Springer, 2006 Bookwalter Jeffrey Department of Economics, University of Montana, 32 Campus Drive, #5472, 59812, Missoula, MT aut Fuller Brandon Department of Economics, University of Montana, 32 Campus Drive, #5472, 59812, Missoula, MT aut Dalenberg Douglas Department of Economics, University of Montana, 32 Campus Drive, #5472, 59812, Missoula, MT aut Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 79/3(2006-12-01), 405-419 0303-8300 79:3<405 2006 79 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-4925-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 other jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-4925-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bookwalter Jeffrey Department of Economics, University of Montana, 32 Campus Drive, #5472, 59812, Missoula, MT aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fuller Brandon Department of Economics, University of Montana, 32 Campus Drive, #5472, 59812, Missoula, MT aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dalenberg Douglas Department of Economics, University of Montana, 32 Campus Drive, #5472, 59812, Missoula, MT aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 79/3(2006-12-01), 405-419 0303-8300 79:3<405 2006 79 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer