household survey in India. Our method identifies enumerators exhibiting deviant field practices, and provides them feedback to … that exist within our survey. We also present evidence that our method succeeded in changing actual enumerator behavior in … recommendations to help make more informed choices. We hope our work will encourage the use of paradata to improve survey quality …

This paper demonstrates how quality of life can be measured by plain text in a representative survey, the German Socio …

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 …

We analyse response patterns to an important survey of school children, exploiting rich auxiliary information on … survey aims to measure. The survey is the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which sets response …

other surveys. Simultaneously, researchers have noted a recent increase in Current Population Survey non-response. We …, as numerous other survey characteristics were revised. We employ a two-stage RDD to relate state-specific refusal … non-citizens and Hispanics reluctant to take the survey. We recommend there be a trial to precisely estimate the question …

macroeconomic expectations at the local level using several waves of a customized survey with more than 10,000 respondents. About 50 …% of survey participants report income and wealth losses due to the corona virus, with the average losses being $5,293 and …

Can a short survey instrument reliably measure a range of fundamental economic preferences across diverse settings? We … focus on survey questions that systematically predict behavior in incentivized experimental tasks among German university … quantitative survey measures - hypothetical versions of experimental tasks - of time preference, attitude to risk and altruism are …

A large literature studies subjective beliefs about economic facts using unincentivized survey questions. We devise … randomized experiments in a representative online survey to investigate whether incentivizing belief accuracy affects stated … provision does not reduce bias in our survey-based belief measures …

variable. In this paper, we explore the questions of what exactly is measured by the diverse survey-derived scales and … experimenters. Inspired by criticism of the widespread trust question used in many surveys, we created a new, improved survey trust …

This note uses a unique dataset for Germany which contains interviewer-rated physical appearance assessments of survey …