全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Measuring the Measurement Error: A Method to Qualitatively Validate Survey Data

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w21447
来源ID	Working Paper 21447
	Measuring the Measurement Error: A Method to Qualitatively Validate Survey Data
	Christopher Blattman; Julian C. Jamison; Tricia Koroknay-Palicz; Katherine Rodrigues; Margaret Sheridan
发表日期	2015-08-17
出版年	2015
语种	英语
摘要	Field experiments rely heavily on self-reported data, but subjects may misreport behaviors, especially sensitive ones such as crime. If treatment influences survey responses, it biases experimental estimates. We develop a validation technique that uses intensive qualitative work to assess survey measurement error. Subjects were assigned to receive cash, therapy, both, or neither. According to survey responses, receiving both treatments dramatically reduced crime and other sensitive behaviors. Local researchers spent several days with a random subsample of subjects following their endline surveys, building trust and seeking verbal confirmation of six behaviors: theft, drug use, homelessness, gambling, and two expenditures. This validation suggests that subjects in the control and cash only groups underreported sensitive behaviors and expenditures in the survey relative to the other treatment arms. We bound survey-based treatment effects estimates, and find the impacts of cash and therapy on crime may be larger than suggested by surveys alone.
主题	Econometrics ; Data Collection ; Experimental Design ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Other ; Law and Economics ; Development and Growth ; Development
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w21447
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579122
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Christopher Blattman,Julian C. Jamison,Tricia Koroknay-Palicz,et al. Measuring the Measurement Error: A Method to Qualitatively Validate Survey Data. 2015.