Survey misreporting of welfare receipt—Respondent, interviewer, and interview characteristics

Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Müller, Gerrit; Riphahn, Regina T.

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2015.02.006

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“…The survey interviewing literature includes several studies demonstrating that CI reduces the bias in survey responses relative to SI (Schober and Conrad, 1997;Conrad and Schober, 2000;Schober et al, 2004Schober et al, , 2012Hubbard et al, 2012;Conrad et al, 2015;Bruckmeier et al, 2015). These studies have shown that, although CI can lead to longer interviews (potentially increasing costs), it can also improve respondents' comprehension of terms in survey questions that may be ambiguous with respect to the situations of particular respondents.…”

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Can Conversational Interviewing Improve Survey Response Quality Without Increasing Interviewer Effects?

West

Conrad

Kreuter

et al. 2016

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society

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Summary Several studies have shown that conversational interviewing (CI) reduces response bias for complex survey questions relative to standardized interviewing. However, no studies have addressed concerns about whether CI increases intra‐interviewer correlations (IICs) in the responses collected, which could negatively impact the overall quality of survey estimates. The paper reports the results of an experimental investigation addressing this question in a national face‐to‐face survey. We find that CI improves response quality, as in previous studies, without substantially or frequently increasing IICs. Furthermore, any slight increases in the IICs do not offset the reduced bias in survey estimates engendered by CI.

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Can Conversational Interviewing Improve Survey Response Quality Without Increasing Interviewer Effects?

West

Conrad

Kreuter

et al. 2016

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society

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“…Bruckmeier et al (2015) study the role of interviewers in transfer receipt and provide references.17 There are no false positives among the interviews with nonrecipients conducted by those with few interviews, but we cannot reject that this error rate is the same as the average false positive rate.…”

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Misreporting of Government Transfers: How Important Are Survey Design and Geography?

Meyer

Mittag

2019

Southern Economic Journal

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Recent studies linking household surveys to administrative records reveal high rates of misreporting of program receipt. We use the FoodAPS survey to examine whether the findings of these studies of general household surveys using one or two states generalize to a survey with a narrow focus and across many states. First, we study how reporting errors differ from other surveys. We find a lower rate of false negatives (failures to report true receipt) in FoodAPS, likely partly due to the shorter recall period of FoodAPS. Misreporting varies with household characteristics and between interviewers. Second, we examine geographic heterogeneity in survey error to assess whether we can extrapolate from linked data from a few states. We find systematic differences between states in unconditional error rates but no evidence of substantial differences conditional on common covariates. Thus, extrapolating error rates across states may yield more accurate receipt estimates than uncorrected survey estimates.

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“…This might be especially problematic for topics that individuals are reluctant to report on as is the case for welfare receipt (see e.g., Bruckmeier et al 2015). But even if respondents are willing to give proper answers, retrospective reporting of labour market histories is likely to produce errors, even more so as individuals get older and biographies increase in length and complexity.…”

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PASS-ADIAB – Linked Survey and Administrative Data for Research on Unemployment and Poverty

Antoni

Bethmann

2018

Jahrbücher Für Nationalökonomie Und Statistik

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Survey misreporting of welfare receipt—Respondent, interviewer, and interview characteristics

Cited by 16 publications

References 16 publications

Can Conversational Interviewing Improve Survey Response Quality Without Increasing Interviewer Effects?

Can Conversational Interviewing Improve Survey Response Quality Without Increasing Interviewer Effects?

Misreporting of Government Transfers: How Important Are Survey Design and Geography?

PASS-ADIAB – Linked Survey and Administrative Data for Research on Unemployment and Poverty

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