Response Bias
The response to a survey question is said to be biased if it does not reveal, on average, the true value of the target variable. This definition is closely related to the definition of a bias in statistics: The bias of an estimator is the difference between its expected value (when computed for a given sample) and the true value of the corresponding parameter (in the population). Biased responses may arise for many types of target variables: attitudes, behaviors, preferences, and expectations; sociodemographic characteristics such as age, level of education, or labor-market status; frequencies such as the number of purchases of a good or the number of doctor visits in a specified period; and monetary quantities such as income, financial assets, or consumption expenditure. This ...
Looks like you do not have access to this content.
Reader's Guide
Descriptive Statistics
Distributions
Graphical Displays of Data
Hypothesis Testing
Important Publications
Inferential Statistics
Item Response Theory
Mathematical Concepts
Measurement Concepts
Organizations
Publishing
Qualitative Research
Reliability of Scores
Research Design Concepts
Research Designs
Research Ethics
Research Process
Research Validity Issues
Sampling
Scaling
Software Applications
Statistical Assumptions
Statistical Concepts
Statistical Procedures
Statistical Tests
Theories, Laws, and Principles
Types of Variables
Validity of Scores
- All
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z