Elaborate Item Count Questioning: Why Do People Underreport in Item Count Responses?

The item count technique, used often to investigate illegal or socially undesirable behaviours, requires respondents to indicate merely the number of applicable items from among a list. However, the number of applicable items indicated via the item count question tends to be smaller than when it is...

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Published in:	Survey Research Methods Vol. 4; no. 3; pp. 139 - 149
Main Authors:	Tsuchiya, Takahiro, Hirai, Yoko
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	European Survey Research Association 2010
Subjects:	Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Psychologie anonymity Anonymität Antwortverhalten Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Psychology Befragung check-all-that-apply comparison consistency empirical social research empirische Sozialforschung Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften error Fehler Fragebogen group Gruppe H1-99 indirect questioning technique indirect questioning technique; item count technique; underreporting effect; order effect; check-all-that-apply item count technique Konsistenz measurement measurement instrument Messinstrument Messung Methodenforschung methodological research Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods order effect Psychologie Psychology questionnaire response behavior Social sciences (General) Social sciences, sociology, anthropology Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie survey underreporting effect Vergleich
ISSN:	1864-3361, 1864-3361
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