Who should supervise students during self-report interviews? A controlled experiment on response behavior in online questionnaires

Walser, Simone; Killias, Martin

doi:10.1007/s11292-011-9129-5

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“…However, most work has been done with regard to the aspect of measurement error in self-report surveys on criminal behaviour. Because of the socially undesirable character of crime, most scholars have been preoccupied with discovering why people respond (dis)honestly about criminal behaviour in surveys and how the truthful responding of respondents could be increased (Junger-Tas and Haen Marshall, 1999; Thornberry and Krohn, 2000; Tourangeau and Yan, 2007; Walser and Killias, 2012).…”

Section: Different Administration Modes Different Results?mentioning

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School vs. mail surveys: Disentangling selection and measurement effects in self-reported juvenile delinquency

Cops

Boeck

Pleysier

2015

European Journal of Criminology

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Knowledge on both the prevalence of and the risk factors for juvenile delinquency rely almost exclusively on data generated by self-report research. However, several errors can occur during the process of data gathering, all of which may have an impact on the validity and reliability of the results. This has become more apparent as self-report data on (juvenile) delinquency are increasingly being used to assess the prevalence of delinquency in society. In this article we try to determine how different administration modes may result in different results with regard to the prevalence of juvenile delinquency being reported as well as the predictors of delinquent behaviour. In order to decide whether these differences can be seen as mode effects, the possible influence of selection effects-or differences in the sample population-must be controlled for. For this aim, the technique of case-control matching is used to match the samples of a mail survey and a school survey, both administered on a representative sample of Flemish youth attending secondary education. Using the technique of case-control matching, we aim to control for differences in non-response error, in order to disentangle non-response effects from effects related to administration mode.

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Section: Different Administration Modes Different Results?mentioning

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School vs. mail surveys: Disentangling selection and measurement effects in self-reported juvenile delinquency

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Boeck

Pleysier

2015

European Journal of Criminology

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“…Two studies compared supervision by the participants' teacher with supervision by the researchers during the completion of the questionnaire with CASI methodology (Walser and Killias 2012;Kivivuori et al 2013). In general, results showed slightly higher estimates in the condition where participants were supervised by researchers, though not reaching statistical significance.…”

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Measurement bias in self-reports of offending: a systematic review of experiments

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Objectives Self-reported offending is one of the primary measurement methods in criminology. In this article, we aimed to systematically review the experimental evidence regarding measurement bias in self-reports of offending. Methods We carried out a systematic search for studies that (a) included a measure of offending, (b) compared self-reported data on offending between different methods, and (c) used an experimental design. Effect sizes were used to summarize the results. Results The 21 pooled experiments provided evidence regarding 18 different types of measurement manipulations which were grouped into three categories, i.e., Modes of administration, Procedures of data collection, and Questionnaire design. An analysis of the effect sizes for each experimental manipulation revealed, on the one hand, that selfreports are reliable across several ways of collecting data and, on the other hand, selfreports are influenced by a wide array of biasing factors. Within these measurement biases, we found that participants' reports of offending are influenced by modes of administration, characteristics of the interviewer, anonymity, setting, bogus pipeline, response format, and size of the questionnaire. Conclusions This review provides evidence that allows us to better understand and improve crime measurements. However, many of the experiments presented in this review are not replicated and additional research is needed to test further aspects of how asking questions may impact participants' answers.

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“…5 Controlled experiments had previously confirmed that outcomes do not significantly differ between electronic and paper-and-pencil questionnaires (Lucia et al, 2007). During the interviews, teachers supervised and, if necessary, assisted their students – two previously conducted randomized controlled trials in Finland (Kivivuori et al, 2013) and in Switzerland (Walser and Killias, 2012) had shown that results do not differ across the mode of supervision (by teachers or by researchers).…”

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Migration, not migrants, is the problem: Delinquency among migrants and non-migrants in Switzerland and ex-Yugoslavia

Killias

Lukash

2019

European Journal of Criminology

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The nexus between migration and crime has been studied over nearly a century across many countries from all continents. Research has concentrated on comparisons of migrants (or their offspring) with natives. Comparisons between migrants and comparable samples from their countries of origin have not been undertaken so far, however, because data were usually limited to the host country. The International Self-Reported Delinquency Study (ISRD-3, Enzmann et al., 2018) allows this gap to be overcome. In Switzerland, with its large immigrant minority – one student in two has roots in a foreign country – migrants of different backgrounds can be compared with native Swiss and with students who attend schools in ex-Yugoslavia where many migrants are from. We compare data on self-reported offences and victimization in the family collected through interviews with some 4000 juveniles in Switzerland and more than 6000 students of the same age in four countries of ex-Yugoslavia (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia). Native-born youths in Switzerland report fewer offences than their immigrant peers, including those from ex-Yugoslavia. Although differences between students from ex-Yugoslavia and other foreign countries are relatively small, juveniles in ex-Yugoslavia report far lower offending rates than immigrants of the same age in Switzerland. Their rates are similar or lower than among native Swiss students. Further, rates of physical punishment and maltreatment are higher among immigrants than among non-migrants in Switzerland and in ex-Yugoslavia. We conclude that cultural background is unrelated to delinquency and parental punishment, but the experience of migrating goes along with violence within the family and self-reported offending. Differences exist between various family constellations, students born or with at least one parent born in Switzerland committing fewer offences and experiencing less parental violence.

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Who should supervise students during self-report interviews? A controlled experiment on response behavior in online questionnaires

Cited by 11 publications

References 16 publications

School vs. mail surveys: Disentangling selection and measurement effects in self-reported juvenile delinquency

School vs. mail surveys: Disentangling selection and measurement effects in self-reported juvenile delinquency

Measurement bias in self-reports of offending: a systematic review of experiments

Migration, not migrants, is the problem: Delinquency among migrants and non-migrants in Switzerland and ex-Yugoslavia

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