Does Interviewer Religious Dress Affect Survey Responses? Evidence from Morocco
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7974182 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lindsay J Benstead (0000-0003-2459-5857, Portland State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 734-760 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics and Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1755-0491 • E-ISSN: 1755-0483 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1755048314000455 |
| OpenAlex | W2159333462 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
| References cited | 35 |
Few studies examine religiosity-of-interviewer effects, despite recent expansion of surveying in the Muslim world. Using data from a nationally-representative survey of 800 Moroccans conducted in 2007, this study investigates whether and why interviewer religiosity and gender affect responses to religiously-sensitive questions. Interviewer dress affects responses to four of six items, but effects are larger and more consistent for religious respondents, in support of power relations theory. Religious Moroccans provide less pious responses to secular-appearing interviewers, whom they may link to the secular state, and more religious answers to interviewers wearing hijab, in order to safeguard their reputation in a society that values piety. Interviewer traits do not affect the probability of item-missing data. Religiosity-of-interviewer effects depend on interviewer gender for questions about dress choice, a gendered issue closely related to interviewer dress. Interviewer gender and dress should be coded and controlled for to reduce bias and better understand social dynamics
Affect (linguistics · Interview · Piety · Political science · Religiosity · Sociology · Law · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology · Survey Methodology and Nonresponse · Survey Sampling and Estimation Techniques
Can Religiosity be Sensed with Satellite Data? An Assessment of Luminosity during Ramadan in Turkey
Social Desirability and Political Sensitivity
Measuring Support for Women’s Political Leadership
Skin Tones and Polarized Politics
It Depends on Who’s Asking
Elder, Am I Right? Age-Group Differences in Social and Political Interactions in Africa
Explaining Backlash
Displaying of religious images in restaurants and cafes in Malaysia
Measuring household food security through surveys
Who Endorses Amnesty? An Original Survey from Morocco's Casablanca Region Assessing Citizen Support for Regularizing Clandestine Migrants
Toward a social psychology of survey methodology
The influence of interviewer characteristics on support for democracy and political engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa
Judges, bribes, and verdicts
On the malleability of gender attitudes
Assessors influence results
Coke, Pepsi or Mecca Cola? Why product characteristics affect the likelihood of collective action problems and boycott success
Calling Mogadishu
Gender attitudes in the Arab region – The role of framing and priming effects
Do You Have “Connections” at the Courthouse? An Original Survey on Informal Influence and Judicial Rulings in Morocco
Social contact and ethnic identity
Understanding the Sensitivity of Party Identification Questions in Polarized African Contexts
Citizenship and Surveys
From Medicine to Mobilization
Is It Gender, Religiosity or Both? A Role Congruity Theory of Candidate Electability in Transitional Tunisia
Community-Level Postmaterialism and Anti-Migrant Attitudes
Ambivalent Sexism? Shifting Patterns of Gender Bias in Five Arab Countries
Enumerator Experiences in Violent Research Environments
The Friday Effect
Why Do You Ask?’ The Nature and Impacts of Attitudes towards Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab World
Advances in Survey Methods for the Developing World
The Political Economy of Support for Sharia
How Does Age Shape Social Interactions? Interviewer-Age Effects, Normative Age Distance, and Gender Attitudes
Survey Research in the Arab World
Thy Neighbor's Gendarme? How Citizens of Buffer States in North Africa View EU Border Security Externalization
Social identity and coethnic voting in the Middle East
Surveying the Landscape of Labor Market Threat Perceptions from Migration
Social identity and intergroup relations
Women in the Middle East
Women and Gender in Islam
Social identity and intergroup relations
Enterprising Identities
Veil
Politics of Piety
The politics of local research production
A quiet revolution
New Veiling in Azerbaijan
Effects of Interviewer Gender on Survey Responses
Effects of Interviewer–Respondent Gender Interaction on Attitudes toward Women and Politics
Social categorization and intergroup behaviour
Interviewer-Respondent Interaction
Women, Islam, and the Moroccan State
Religiosity-of-Interviewer Effects
The Effects of Black and White Interviewers on Black Responses in 1968
The Effect of Interviewer Gender on the Survey Response
The Political Economy of Women's Support for Fundamentalist Islam
Do Interviewers Bias Poll Results
The Effects of the Race of the Interviewer on Race-Related Attitudes of Black Respondents in SRC/CPS National Election Studies
Interviewer Gender and Gender Attitudes
Age and Authority in the Interview
Women and Democracy
Islam and Democracy in the Middle East
Modernization, Islam, or Social Capital
The Two Faces of Public Opinion
Safety-Valve Elections and the Arab Spring
Autocrats and Islamists
Evaluating Race-of-Interviewer Effects In a National Survey
Gender in the Middle East
| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |