TY - JOUR
T1 - Sex, lies, and measurement
T2 - Consistency tests for indirect response survey methods
AU - Chuang, Erica
AU - Dupas, Pascaline
AU - Huillery, Elise
AU - Seban, Juliette
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - Social scientists seeking to analyze socially sanctioned behaviors or attitudes increasingly rely on indirect response survey methods, meant to veil the answers of individual respondents. We propose simple internal consistency tests for two such methods, the list experiment and the randomized response technique (its Warner and Crosswise variants). We implement these tests in two studies on sexual and reproductive health behavior in Cameroon and Côte d'Ivoire. Non-compliance with instructions among surveyed individuals appears high and not easily char-acterizable. The tests we propose can be easily and cheaply embedded in measurement tools, allowing researchers to at least know whether their data is reliable before using it.
AB - Social scientists seeking to analyze socially sanctioned behaviors or attitudes increasingly rely on indirect response survey methods, meant to veil the answers of individual respondents. We propose simple internal consistency tests for two such methods, the list experiment and the randomized response technique (its Warner and Crosswise variants). We implement these tests in two studies on sexual and reproductive health behavior in Cameroon and Côte d'Ivoire. Non-compliance with instructions among surveyed individuals appears high and not easily char-acterizable. The tests we propose can be easily and cheaply embedded in measurement tools, allowing researchers to at least know whether their data is reliable before using it.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102582
DO - 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102582
M3 - Article
SN - 0304-3878
VL - 148
JO - Journal of Development Economics
JF - Journal of Development Economics
M1 - 102582
ER -