This study aims to analyse the impact of the measurement of health status on socioeconomic inequalities in health. A MIMIC model with structural equations is used to create a latent variable of health status from four health indicators : self-assessed health, report of chronic diseases, report...

The wish to minimize his efforts to answer a questionnaire is known with the term of satisficing. It constitutes an important problem for both researchers and practitioners. The aim of this article is to improve the detection and the effects of this phenomenon. The results of a quantitative...

This paper is the first attempt to emprically analyze the statistical characteristic of property swap prices and to investigate on their risk factors. Four yaers of price data on the UK Investment Property Data bank (IPD) Total Return Swap All Property are analyzed. The choice of the UK marketis...

In this research, we study social desirability and demand artifacts in light of the increasing use of on-line studies. Our experiment shows that this data collection medium does not always reduce these biases. First, when an attractive interviewer appears on the cover page of an on-line study,...

This study examines the limits of global corruption indicators based on experts’ perceptions. It draws on a wave of original surveys conducted in eight African countries that combined two types of approaches. The first approach covers a sample of over 35,000 people and uses experience-based...

The emergence of institutions, governance and especially corruption as major development considerations has generated a whole host of international databases intended to measure these concepts. These databases are now widely used in both the academic world and for public policies, especially for...

Cet article fait un point technique et méthodologique sur les écarts entre agrégats issus des comptes nationaux et des enquêtes auprès des ménages, tant en niveau absolu qu’en évolution, pour la mesure de la consommation et du revenu des ménages, et corrélativement celle de la...

In many research papers the research methodology section gives details of the context and data gathering strategy however the data analysis process often remains a mystery. In an aim to increase collective reflection on data analysis, this article adds to emerging literature on the subject....