Survey Bias on the Front Porch

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 468-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID L. LEAL ◽  
FREDERICK M. HESS
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Political Information ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Survey Bias ◽  
Unbiased Manner ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
And Gender

We examine whether survey interviewers are biased in their views of certain classes of respondents, thereby introducing unobserved bias into survey results. There has been a great deal of previous research on how racial and gender dynamics affect the responses given by respondents during face-to-face surveys. In this article, we turn this issue around and ask whether human interaction affects how the interviewer views the respondents, and if so, how this may systematically bias surveys. If interviewers are biased, this may impede their ability to conduct interviews in a consistent, nonjudgmental, and unbiased manner. Using three surveys that required the interviewer to evaluate how informed and intelligent the respondents appeared, we found that interviewers were more likely to evaluate respondents of lower socioeconomic status as less informed and less intelligent, even after controlling for objective levels of political information. There is also evidence that Blacks may be negatively evaluated.

scholarly journals Analysis of Class-as-Race and Gender Ideology in the US Young Adult Sports Novel Racing Savannah (2013)

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-144
Author(s):  
Rocío Riestra-Camacho
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Adolescent Readers ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
The Us ◽  
And Gender

Equine fiction is an established genre in the English juvenile literary canon. Current works in the field appeal to adolescent readers thanks to their interface between classic motifs of vintage and contemporary forms of equine narratives. Performing a close reading of selected passages in Miranda Kenneally’s Racing Savannah (2013), this paper acknowledges how this novel is a revitalization and a challenge to this pattern. Savannah, who is more gifted than her companions, is subordinate to the decisions of the junior of the household where she works. Jack Goodwin, the protagonist’s romantic lead, educated in a neocolonialist background of male jockeying, becomes Savannah’s marker of difference according to her sex and lower socioeconomic status, which lay at the root of her later racialization despite her being a white character. My analysis attempts to expose how these difficulties encountered by the protagonist to become a professional jockey articulate past and present constraints of the horse-racing ladder.

scholarly journals Social Disparities in Adopting Non-pharmaceutical Interventions During COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 0169796X2199685
Author(s):  
Svenn-Erik Mamelund ◽  
Jessica Dimka ◽  
Nan Zou Bakkeli
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Social Disparities ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Disease Outcomes ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Pharmaceutical Interventions

In the absence of vaccines to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020 governments had to respond by rely on non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). Socioeconomic inequalities likely influenced the uptake of NPIs. Using Norwegian survey data, we study whether income was associated with increased handwashing, keeping 1 m distance, using facemasks increased use of home office, and less use of public transportation. Except for using facemasks and less public transportation in a non-work context, all analyzed NPIs showed an independent positive association with income. Social disparities in NPI uptake may be important drivers of higher risks of disease outcomes for people of lower socioeconomic status.

Is Fringe Baking A Component of Socially Determined Health?

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney L Hundley ◽  
Richard W. Wilson ◽  
John Chenault ◽  
Jamie L. Smimble
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Health It ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Indirect Association ◽  
Zip Code

This was an exploratory study to assess the association between density of fringe lenders (e.g.payday) and health status. For Louisville, Kentucky, ZIP code level data on hospitalizations and mortalityrates as health measures were compared to fringe bank locations. We found lower socioeconomic status(SES) positively correlated with greater frequency of fringe banks; rates of illness appear to be higher in ZIPcodes with more fringe banks, but this finding was not statistically significant. In conclusion, neighbor-hoods between higher frequencies of fringe banks appear to have poorer health; it is premature to rule in orrule out a direct or indirect association between neighborhood presence of fringe banks, but there is enoughevidence to justify additional research to put any conclusions on a firmer footing.

'Just do it': An analysis of accounts of control over health amongst lower socioeconomic status groups

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Bolam ◽  
Darrin Hodgetts ◽  
Kerry Chamberlain ◽  
Simon Murphy ◽  
Kate Gleeson
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic

scholarly journals COMPARISON OF POST-NATAL DEPRESSION AMONG WOMEN OF UPPER, MIDDLE AND LOWER SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 2643-2647
Author(s):  
Dhwani.Prakash. Sidhpura ◽  
◽  
Satish Pimpale ◽  
Ajay Kumar ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Post Natal Depression

scholarly journals Conceptions of poverty and wealth among schoolchildren

Psihologija ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-215
Author(s):  
Spomenka Miskovic
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Group Affiliation ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Total N ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
Parental Level

This research attempts to explore conceptions of poverty and wealth typical for Belgrade schoolchildren in two different ages: 13,5 years and 17,5 years (total N=222). We identified the content and the structure of conceptions, as well as the age differences for every conception element. The criteria for identification that younger children used were: possessing, appearance, psychical characteristic and specific social group affiliation, while older children demonstrated social schemes of larger complexity and stated: general needs, evaluation of life, different ways of becoming rich or poor, describing life-styles. Relations between various explanations of poverty and wealth revealed the existence of one homogeneous structural component (blaming the system) as well as the presence of conditional non homogeneous individualistic one. Schoolchildren with higher socioeconomic status prefered individualistic (positive) explanations of wealth in comparison with children that had lower socioeconomic status. At the same time, we found no difference in using structuralistic explanations of poverty between schoolchildren who had different socioeconomic status. Parental level of education turned out to be irrelevant for social criticism.

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