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Gaining valid answers to so-called sensitive questions is an age-old problem in survey research. Various techniques have been developed to guarantee anonymity and minimize the respondent’s feelings of jeopardy. Two such techniques are the randomized response technique (RRT) and the...
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This article evaluates three different questioning techniques for measuring the prevalence of plagiarism in student papers: the randomized response technique (RRT), the item count technique (ICT), and the crosswise model (CM). In three independent experimental surveys with Swiss and German...
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Gaining valid answers to so-called sensitive questions is an age-old problem in survey research. Various techniques have been developed to guarantee anonymity and minimize the respondent's feelings of jeopardy. Two such techniques are the randomized response technique (RRT) and the unmatched...
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Surveys are widely used by scholars, companies, and public policymakers to generate invaluable insights. Despite the popularity of surveys, there are several biases that can affect the validity of self-reported data. In his inaugural address, Martijn de Jong discusses how new survey methods can...
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Focuses on cigarette manufacturing in the 1990s.
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Cigarette smoking has long been a target of public health intervention because it substantially contributes to … morbidity and mortality. Individuals in different-sex marriages have lower smoking risk (i.e., prevalence and frequency) than … different-sex cohabiters. However, little is known about the smoking risk of individuals in same-sex cohabiting unions. We …
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We document racial/ethnic and nativity differences in U.S. smoking patterns among adolescents and young adults using …-Hispanic white), and further by sex and age, we compare self-reports of lifetime smoking across groups. U.S.-born non-Hispanic whites …, particularly men, report smoking more than individuals in other racial/ethnic/nativity groups. Some groups of young women (e …
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self-reported behaviour of pregnant women suggest that there may be differential misclassification related to smoking and …
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Smoking has significantly impacted American mortality and remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. No previous … study has systematically examined the contribution of smoking-attributable deaths to mortality trends among blacks or to … and data sources to provide a comprehensive assessment of this contribution. We find that smoking has contributed to the …
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