This paper tests for a number of survey effects in the elicitation of expenditure items. In particular we examine the … features of survey design influence expenditure reports. We find that over one quarter of respondents have difficulty … survey question. It is crucial to further account for these features in ongoing surveys. -- Expenditure surveys ; survey …

survey experiment in Tanzania that varied two key dimensions: the level of detail of the questions and the type of respondent …. Significant differences are observed across survey designs with respect to different labor statistics. Labor force participation … rates, for example, vary by as much as 10 percentage points across the four survey assignments. Using a short labor module …

Mobile phone survey interviewing is becoming increasingly prevalent, so it is important to understand how it affects … technology can influence survey responses. We evaluate elements of the framework using data from a randomised experiment in which … were gathered. Our findings address causes of survey error resulting from mode of data collection, both in general and in …

We assess whether the probability of a sample member participating at a particular wave of a panel survey is greater if … response rate as well as interactions of interviewer continuity with other variables. -- longitudinal survey ; multiple …

The aim of this paper is to test the existence of middle class bias in survey cooperation. We do this by carrying out a …

We conduct two large-scale randomised experiments on the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to study methods of …

-country studies. However, interviewer training, contacting and cooperation strategies as well as survey climates may differ across … countries. Combining call-record data from the European Social Survey (ESS) with data from a detailed interviewer questionnaire …

Respondents in long telephone survey interviews may adopt satisficing strategies as they approach the end of the … response quality using data from a cross-national survey experiment. Sample members were randomly assigned to interviews of 60 … questions ; satisficing ; survey error …

This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on … corresponding HBAI ones relatively well over time. -- British Household Panel Survey ; household income ; net income ; disposable …