Survey practice最新文献

Can I Interview Her? Gatekeeping in a Telephone Survey of Female Migrants in India. 我可以采访她吗？印度女性移民电话调查中的守门人。

Survey practice Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-02 DOI: 10.29115/sp-2024-0029

Sharan Sharma, Bijay Chouhan, O P Sharma, Jaya Koti, Sonalde Desai

{"title":"Can I Interview Her? Gatekeeping in a Telephone Survey of Female Migrants in India.","authors":"Sharan Sharma, Bijay Chouhan, O P Sharma, Jaya Koti, Sonalde Desai","doi":"10.29115/sp-2024-0029","DOIUrl":"10.29115/sp-2024-0029","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper explores 'gatekeeping', the phenomenon where access to a sample person in the household is controlled by another person. Gatekeeping of female persons is especially an issue in societies governed by gendered social norms. It can increase survey error by reducing response rates and potentially increasing non-response bias, and can increase measurement error when gatekeepers insist on providing proxy responses. We contribute to the sparse literature on gatekeeping by using data from a telephone survey of migrants in India and focusing on the sample of female married-out migrants. We estimate the prevalence of gatekeeping, compare outcomes of calls made to gatekept versus non-gatekept cases, and model the likelihood of a proxy interview. We estimate that gatekeeping of females in telephone surveys is in the range of 56%-65%, with gatekept calls much more likely to result in proxy interviews. We find that older and more-educated women are less subject to gatekeeping and that male and married interviewers are associated with a greater likelihood of gatekeeping. We discuss implications of these results for survey practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":74893,"journal":{"name":"Survey practice","volume":"19 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12362564/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144982023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Examining the Link between the ‘Middle Means Typical’ Heuristic and Answer Behavior 研究 "中间即典型 "启发式与回答行为之间的联系

Survey practice Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.29115/sp-2024-0009

Ádám Stefkovics, Jan Karem Höhne

{"title":"Examining the Link between the ‘Middle Means Typical’ Heuristic and Answer Behavior","authors":"Ádám Stefkovics, Jan Karem Höhne","doi":"10.29115/sp-2024-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29115/sp-2024-0009","url":null,"abstract":"Question interpretation in web surveys may not only depend on the textual content but also on visual design aspects. Research has shown that respondents seem to make use of interpretative heuristics when answering questions potentially influencing their answer behavior. In this study, we investigate the implications of the ‘middle means typical’ (MMT) heuristic, which suggests that respondents perceive the middle option of a scale as the most typical one. For this purpose, we use data from a survey experiment embedded in the probability-based German Internet Panel (N = 4,679) varying the inclusion of a non-substantive “Don’t know” option (with or without separation from the substantive options) and scale polarity (unipolar or bipolar). The four questions under investigation were adopted from the Big5 inventory dealing with agreeableness and openness. The results suggest that the MMT heuristic has a minor impact on answer behavior, as the separation of non-substantive options did not affect answer distributions and response times (as a measure of response effort). However, scale polarity influenced answer behavior and response times. Similar to what has been observed in previous studies, unipolar scales elicited more middle answers and bipolar scales elicited more positive answers. Bipolar scales also resulted in longer response times. Although design violations against the MMT heuristic do not seem to impact answer behavior, we still recommend exercising caution when designing scales with non-substantive options. We also highlight the necessity of testing scales differing with respect to polarity.","PeriodicalId":74893,"journal":{"name":"Survey practice","volume":"172 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141828599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Best Practices for Measuring Skin Color in Surveys 在调查中测量肤色的最佳做法

Survey practice Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.29115/sp-2024-0005

Rachel A. Gordon, Amelia R. Branigan, M. Khan, Johanna G. Nunez

{"title":"Best Practices for Measuring Skin Color in Surveys","authors":"Rachel A. Gordon, Amelia R. Branigan, M. Khan, Johanna G. Nunez","doi":"10.29115/sp-2024-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29115/sp-2024-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Surveys that assess skin color support evidence building about colorism and related systemic inequalities that affect health and wellbeing. Methodologists have increasing choices for such assessments, including a growing array of digital images for rating scales and increasingly cost-effective handheld mechanical devices based on color science. Guidance is needed for choosing among these growing options. We used data from a diverse sample of 102 college students to produce new empirical evidence and practical guidance about various options. We compared three handheld devices that ranged in price, considering variations in their reliabilities and how their results differed by where on the body and with what device settings readings were taken. We also offered evidence regarding how reliably interviewers and participants could choose from a large array of color swatches offering variation in skin undertone (redness, yellowness) in addition to skin shade (lightness-to-darkness). Overall, the results were promising, demonstrating that modern handheld devices and rating scales could be feasibly and reliably used. For instance, results demonstrated that just one or two device readings were needed at any given location, and, the device readings and rating scale scores similarly captured the relative darkness of skin. In other cases, recommendations were less certain. For instance, skin undertones of redness and yellowness were more sensitive to device choices and body locations. We encourage future studies that pursue why such variability exists and for which substantive questions it matters most.","PeriodicalId":74893,"journal":{"name":"Survey practice","volume":"38 50","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141103729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Applying Machine Learning to Survey Question Assessment 将机器学习应用于调查问题评估

Survey practice Pub Date : 2024-05-09 DOI: 10.29115/sp-2024-0006

Ting Yan, Hanyu Sun, Anil Battalahalli

引用次数: 0

Processes and Challenges Associated with Conducting Survey Research in Conflict Zones 在冲突地区开展调查研究的相关流程和挑战

Survey practice Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.29115/sp-2023-0032

William L. Rosenberg

{"title":"Processes and Challenges Associated with Conducting Survey Research in Conflict Zones","authors":"William L. Rosenberg","doi":"10.29115/sp-2023-0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29115/sp-2023-0032","url":null,"abstract":"A wide variety of organizations domestically and internationally conduct surveys in conflict zones. Their timely findings are essential for policy makers. Survey research in conflict zones is an essential tool for policy makers in government, humanitarian, private sector, and non-governmental organizations to develop and evaluate programs, services, and policies. Such research is often even more challenging in less developed areas of the world due to issues related to access, technology, and staffing. Other challenges include population movements, lack of societal data structures such as a recent census, communication systems such as telephones, as well as issues related to sampling, design, and the omnipresent issue of security for the researchers and respondents. Often, researchers must make trade-offs regarding internal and external validity which are tempered by issues related to cost, speed, and accuracy. Policy makers need to feel comfortable in the reliability and the generalizability of the findings they receive or develop. The data collected in conflict zones must strive to use appropriate techniques to quantify the data and evaluate the results. Furthermore, flexibility and adaptability are important concepts to consider when conducting research in conflict zones.","PeriodicalId":74893,"journal":{"name":"Survey practice","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140717797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Large sampling errors when using the Unmatched Count Technique to estimate prevalence: A simulation study 使用非匹配计数技术估计流行率时存在较大的抽样误差：模拟研究

Survey practice Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.29115/sp-2024-0002

Zachary Neal

引用次数: 0

Large sampling errors when using the Unmatched Count Technique to estimate prevalence: A simulation study 使用非匹配计数技术估计流行率时存在较大的抽样误差：模拟研究

Survey practice Pub Date : 2024-02-01 DOI: 10.29115/sp-2024-0002

Zachary Neal

引用次数: 0

Measuring the Growth of Gender-Inclusive Surveys Around the World 衡量全球性别包容性调查的增长情况

Survey practice Pub Date : 2024-01-04 DOI: 10.29115/sp-2023-0019

Zoe Padgett, Sam Gutierrez, Laura Wronski, Soubhik Barari