Modest Expectations

This paper measures the effect of interviewers and interviewers'prior expectations on response to threatening questions. The results indicate that interviewers are responsible for an average of about 7% of total response variance, to which expectations contribute a small amount. In most practical situations, interviewer expectations can be ignored.

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Year of publication:	1977
Authors:	Sudman, Seymour ; Bradburn, Norman M. ; Blair, ED ; Stocking, Carol
Published in:	Sociological Methods & Research. - Vol. 6.1977, 2, p. 171-182

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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