Sample Surveys With Sensitive Questions: A Nonrandomized Response Approach

Tan, Ming; Tian, Guo‐Liang; Tang, Man‐Lai

doi:10.1198/tast.2009.0002

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“…As variants of this design, Yu, Tian, and Tang (2008) and Tan, Tian, and Tang (2009) proposed two designs that do not require a randomizing device: the triangular and crosswise designs. Both designs make use of an unrelated, nonsensitive question (e.g., whether the respondent is born between August and December) that is assumed to be independent of the sensitive item (e.g., whether the respondent is a drug user).…”

Section: Unrelated Question Designmentioning

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E-research – selected issues concerning the Internet attitudes and opinions research

Kulikowski¹

2015

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About a half century ago, in 1965, Warner proposed the randomized response method as a survey technique to reduce potential bias due to nonresponse and social desirability when asking questions about sensitive behaviors and beliefs. This method asks respondents to use a randomization device, such as a coin flip, whose outcome is unobserved by the interviewer. By introducing random noise, the method conceals individual responses and protects respondent privacy. While numerous methodological advances have been made, we find surprisingly few applications of this promising survey technique. In this article, we address this gap by (1) reviewing standard designs available to applied researchers, (2) developing various multivariate regression techniques for substantive analyses, (3) proposing power analyses to help improve research designs, (4) presenting new robust designs that are based on less stringent assumptions than those of the standard designs, and (5) making all described methods available through open-source software. We illustrate some of these methods with an original survey about militant groups in Nigeria.

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Section: Unrelated Question Designmentioning

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E-research – selected issues concerning the Internet attitudes and opinions research

Kulikowski¹

2015

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“…First, respondents were presented with a question about willingness to bribe a police officer in order to avoid a traffic ticket using a particular SST format called the crosswise model (Yu, Tian and Tang, 2008;Tan, Tian and Tang, 2009). This technique provides anonymity to respondents via the commingling of responses about a sensitive issue (corruption) with responses about an innocuous question.…”

Section: Survey Questioning Formatmentioning

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Corruption as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Costa Rica

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“…This motivated diverse authors to introduce nonrandomized response (NRR) methods, for example, Yu, Tian, and Tang (2008), Tan, Tian, andLiu (2009) or Groenitz (2014). In NRR schemes, an indirect answer that depends on the respondent's outcome of an auxiliary characteristic must be given.…”

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Improving Estimation Accuracy in Nonrandomized Response Questioning Methods by Multiple Answers

Groenitz

2017

IJSP

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When private or stigmatizing characteristics are included in sample surveys, direct questions result in low cooperation of the respondents. To increase cooperation, indirect questioning procedures have been established in the literature. Nonrandomized response methods are one group of such procedures and have attracted much attention in recent years. In this article, we consider four popular nonrandomized response schemes and present a possibility to improve the estimation precision of these schemes. The basic idea is to require multiple indirect answers from each respondent. We develop a Fisher scoring algorithm for the maximum likelihood estimation in the presented new schemes and show the better efficiency of the new schemes compared with the original designs.

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Sample Surveys With Sensitive Questions: A Nonrandomized Response Approach

Cited by 58 publications

References 23 publications

E-research – selected issues concerning the Internet attitudes and opinions research

E-research – selected issues concerning the Internet attitudes and opinions research

Corruption as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Costa Rica

Improving Estimation Accuracy in Nonrandomized Response Questioning Methods by Multiple Answers

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