Assessing Response Fatigue in Phone Surveys

Experimental Evidence on Dietary Diversity in Ethiopia

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ID19934591
AutoresKibrom A Abay (0000-0003-1451-2421, International Food Policy Research Institute), Guush Berhane (0000-0002-6306-2415, International Food Policy Research Institute), John Hoddinott (0000-0002-0590-3917, Cornell University), Kibrom Tafere (0000-0002-5261-5619, World Bank Group)
Ano2021
Data de publicação2021-04-01
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
EditoraWorld Bank, Washington, DC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1596/1813-9450-9636
OpenAlexW3156409032
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas34

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred interest in the use of remote data collection techniques, including phone surveys, in developing country contexts. This interest has sparked new methodological work focusing on the advantages and disadvantages of different forms of remote data collection, the use of incentives to increase response rates, and how to address sample representativeness. By contrast, attention given to associated response fatigue and its implications remains limited. This study designed and implemented an experiment that randomized the placement of a survey module on women’s dietary diversity in the survey instrument. The study also examines potential differential vulnerabilities to fatigue across food groups and respondents. The findings show that delaying the timing of mothers’ food consumption module by 15 minutes leads to 8-17 percent decrease in the dietary diversity score and a 28 percent decrease in the number of mothers who consumed a minimum of four dietary groups. This is driven by underreporting of infrequently consumed foods; the experimentally induced delay in the timing of mothers’ food consumption module led to decreases of 40 and 11 percent in the reporting of consumption of animal source foods and fruits and vegetables, respectively. The results are robust to changes in model specification and pass falsification tests. Responses by older and less educated mothers and those from larger households are more vulnerable to measurement error due to fatigue

Diversity (politics) · Geography · Phone · Sociology · Anthropology · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Survey Methodology and Nonresponse · Survey Sampling and Estimation Techniques