Survey self-asessments, reporting behaviour and the use of externally collected vignettes

Mark Harris, Rachel Knott Author Email: rachel.knott@monash.edu, Paula Lorgelly and Nigel Rice
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Rachel Knott Author Email: rachel.knott@monash.edu: Monash University

No WP1508, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre Working Paper series from Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC), Curtin Business School

Abstract: The anchoring vignette approach has grown in popularity as a method to adjust for reporting heterogeneity in subjective self-reports, removing bias due to systematic variation in reporting styles across study respondents. The use of anchoring vignettes, however, has been limited to surveys where both self-reports and vignette questions have been included. This diminishes their wider application. We illustrate, using an application to self-assessed health in a large household survey, how externally collected vignettes can be used to adjust for reporting heterogeneity in self-reports observed in datasets where vignettes have not been included. Given that self-reports to survey questions are an important facet of social research to understand di erences across socio-economic groups and populations, we anticipate the approach described will lead to new applications of the anchoring vignette methodology.

Keywords: Anchoring vignettes; self-reports; reporting heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 C3 I1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2015-11
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