Investigating Response Patterns Across Surveys
Do Respondents Show Consistency in Undesirable Answer Behaviour over Multiple Surveys
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12102829 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frank Bais (Utrecht University, corresponding author), Barry Schouten (0000-0002-6176-7171, Statistics Netherlands, The Hague, Netherlands), Vera Toepoel (0000-0001-7315-6311, Utrecht University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 147-148 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 150-168 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0759-1063 • E-ISSN: 2070-2779 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0759106320939891 |
| OpenAlex | W3080213414 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 24 |
The relation between answer behaviour and measurement error has been studied extensively. Answer behaviour may be considered undesirable, like answering ‘don’t know’ or ‘won’t tell’. It is not clear to what degree undesirable answer behaviour from the same respondents is present across different surveys. In this study, we investigated to what extent respondents show undesirable answer behaviours consistently over multiple surveys. First, we investigated to what extent the answer behaviours occurred in ten large general population surveys of CentERdata and Statistics Netherlands. Second, we explored the respondent variances and respondent-survey interaction variances to obtain an indication for respondent consistency for each answer behaviour. The results showed that respondents only occasionally give ‘don’t know’– and ‘won’t tell’-answers. An indication for respondent consistency was found for fast responding, slow responding, and ‘won’t tell’-answers in particular. We recommend follow-up research to investigate the relation between respondent characteristics and consistent answer behaviour
Consistency (knowledge bases · Data mining · Population · Population mean · Relation (database · Respondent · Sociology · Statistics · Computer Science · Demography · Expert finding and Q&A systems · Mathematics · Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing · Psychology · Social Psychology · Survey Methodology and Nonresponse
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |