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A Test for Anchoring and Yea-Saying in Experimental Consumption Data

van soest, arthur; Hurd, Michael D. - RAND - 2003

answering the open-ended question or not. Two well-known types of mistakes are considered: anchoring and yea-saying (or … by anchoring. We reject the joint hypothesis of no anchoring and no yea-saying at the entry point. Once yea-saying is … taken into account, there is no evidence of anchoring. …

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Taking 'don't knows' as valid responses: A complete random imputation of missing data

Kroh, Martin - 2004

Incomplete data is a common problem of survey research. Recent work on multiple imputation techniques has increased analysts? awareness of the biasing effects of missing data and has also provided a convenient solution. Imputation methods replace non-response with estimates of the unobserved...

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Measuring non-response bias in a cross-country enterprise survey

Bańkowska, Katarzyna; Osiewicz, Małgorzata; … - 2015

Non-response is a common issue affecting the vast majority of surveys, and low non-response is usually associated with higher quality. However, efforts to convince unwilling respondents to participate in a survey might not necessarily result in a better picture of the target population. It can...

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Extended field efforts to reduce the risk of non-response bias: Do they pay off?

Hall, Julia; Brown, Victoria; Nicolaas, Gerry; Lynn, Peter - 2011

We examine the effects on survey estimates of extended interviewer efforts to gain survey response, including refusal conversion attempts and attempts to make contact with hard-to-contact sample members. Specifically, we update and extend the research of Lynn & Clarke (2002). We estimate bias...

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Panel attrition: How important is it to keep the same interviewer?

Lynn, Peter; Kaminska, Olena; Goldstein, Harvey - 2011

We assess whether the probability of a sample member participating at a particular wave of a panel survey is greater if the same interviewer is deployed as at the previous wave. Previous research on this topic mainly uses non-experimental data. Consequently, a) interviewer change is generally...

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Experiments with methods to reduce attrition in longitudinal surveys

Fumagalli, Laura; Laurie, Heather; Lynn, Peter - 2010

We conduct two large-scale randomised experiments on the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to study methods of reducing panel attrition. The first experiment compares different strategies for tracing and maintaining contact with sample members. We find that change-of-address cards...

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Taking "Don't Knows" as Valid Responses: A Complete Random Imputation of Missing Data

Kroh, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

Incomplete data is a common problem of survey research. Recent work on multiple imputation techniques has increased analysts' awareness of the biasing effects of missing data and has also provided a convenient solution. Imputation methods replace non-response with estimates of the unobserved...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068716

Non-response behaviour in the Bank of Italyï¿½s Survey of Household Income and Wealth

D'Alessio, Giovanni; Faiella, Ivan - Banca d'Italia - 2002

This paper aims to describe non-respondents in the Bank of Italyï¿½s Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) and to measure the underestimation of income and wealth attributable to non-response. The evidence confirms that non-response is not random, since it is more frequent among...

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Heterogeneous anchoring in dichotomous choice valuation framework

FLACHAIRE, Emmanuel; HOLLARD, Guillaume; LUCHINI, Stéphane - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2007

This article addresses the important issue of anchoring in contingent valuation surveys that use the double …-bounded elicitation format. Anchoring occurs when responses to the follow-up dichotomous choice valuation question are influenced by the … controlling for anchoring - and allowing the degree of anchoring to differ between respondent groups - the efficiency of the …

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Heterogeneous anchoring in dichotomous choice valuation framework

Flachaire, Emmanuel; Hollard, Guillaume; Luchini, Stéphane - In: Recherches économiques de Louvain 73 (2007) 4, pp. 369-385

This article addresses the important issue of anchoring in contingent valuation surveys that use the double …-bounded elicitation format. Anchoring occurs when responses to the follow-up dichotomous choice valuation question are influenced by the … controlling for anchoring ? and allowing the degree of anchoring to differ between respondent groups ? the efficiency of the …

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