Survey misreporting of welfare receipt—Respondent, interviewer, and interview characteristics

Kerstin Bruckmeier, Gerrit Müller and Regina Riphahn

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 129, issue C, 103-107

Abstract: We use matched survey and administrative data to study interviewer and interview related determinants of misreporting on welfare receipt in interviews. In our data, 12.2 % of German welfare recipients underreport benefit receipt. We find that underreporting is more likely in formal and standardized interviews compared to those with a more conversational character. Further, low interviewer education and matched interviewer–respondent characteristics with respect to immigration and education are associated with higher reporting quality.

Keywords: Misreporting; Interviewer style; Conversational interviewing; Standardized interviewing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.02.006

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