Indirect Questioning in Sample Surveys

✍ Scribed by Arijit Chaudhuri, Tasos C. Christofides (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 186
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Indirect questioning is a crucial topic in surveys of human populations. When the issue is about a stigmatizing characteristic (for example about illegal drug use), standard survey methodologies are destined to fail because, as expected, people are not willing to reveal incriminating information or information violating their privacy. Indirect questioning techniques have been devised so that the privacy of participants in a sample survey is protected and at the same time good estimates of certain parameters (e.g. the percentage of people in a certain community who use illegal drugs) can be delivered. The topic is modern and still under development.

Indirect Questioning in Sample Surveys represents a collection of the most important and recent techniques of indirect questioning, including various versions of randomized response, the item count technique, the nominative technique, the three-card method, non-randomized response models and negative surveys, while also exploring the key aspect of protecting privacy.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
A Plea for Indirect Questioning: Stigmatizing Issues of Social Relevance....Pages 1-7
Specification of Qualitative and Quantitative Parameters Demanding Estimation....Pages 9-20
Various Indirect Questioning Techniques....Pages 21-27
Randomized Response Techniques to Capture Qualitative Features....Pages 29-94
Quantitative Issues Bearing Stigma: Parameter Estimation....Pages 95-113
Indirect Techniques as Alternatives to Randomized Response....Pages 115-149
Protection of Privacy....Pages 151-171
Back Matter....Pages 173-177

✦ Subjects

Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences; Statistical Theory and Methods; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Mathematics in the Humaniti

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