scholarly journals Estimation of Sensitive Proportion by Randomized Response Data in Successive Sampling

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Yu ◽  
Zongda Jin ◽  
Jiayong Tian ◽  
Ge Gao

This paper considers the problem of estimation for binomial proportions of sensitive or stigmatizing attributes in the population of interest. Randomized response techniques are suggested for protecting the privacy of respondents and reducing the response bias while eliciting information on sensitive attributes. In many sensitive question surveys, the same population is often sampled repeatedly on each occasion. In this paper, we apply successive sampling scheme to improve the estimation of the sensitive proportion on current occasion.

1985 ◽  
Vol 34 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 225-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arijit Chaudhuri ◽  
Rahul Mukerjee

Author(s):  
Mehvish Hyder ◽  
Tahir Mahmood ◽  
Muhammad Moeen Butt ◽  
Syed Muhammad Muslim Raza ◽  
Nasir Abbas

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (16) ◽  
pp. 8101-8112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shen-Ming Lee ◽  
Ter-Chao Peng ◽  
Jean de Dieu Tapsoba ◽  
Shu-Hui Hsieh

Author(s):  
Matthew Nanes ◽  
Dotan Haim

Abstract Research on sensitive topics uses a variety of methods to combat response bias on in-person surveys. Increasingly, researchers allow respondents to self-administer responses using electronic devices as an alternative to more complicated experimental approaches. Using an experiment embedded in a survey in the rural Philippines, we test the effects of several such methods on response rates and falsification. We asked respondents a sensitive question about reporting insurgents to the police alongside a nonsensitive question about school completion. We randomly assigned respondents to answer these questions either verbally, through a “forced choice” experiment, or through self-enumeration. We find that self-enumeration significantly reduced nonresponse compared to direct questioning, but find little evidence of differential rates of falsification. Forced choice yielded highly unlikely estimates, which we attribute to nonstrategic falsification. These results suggest that self-administered surveys can be effective for measuring sensitive topics on surveys when response rates are a priority.


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