Randomized Response and Indirect Survey Techniques

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Title

Indian Statistical Institute Series

Abstract

In finite population surveys, certain items of enquiry relate to sensitive and stigmatizing issues. For an interviewer, it may be embarrassing to ask a respondent if he/she is prone to under-reporting in Income Tax returns, or has the habit of bribe-taking or -paying, claiming unlawful government concessions or having the habit of violating driving speed restrictions, etc. Direct queries even if ventured upon in such situations often invite false reporting or refusals to answering. To better counter such circumstances, one may avoid going for Direct Responses (DR) and instead prefer to adopt Randomized Response (RR) or other Indirect Techniques for gathering adequate and trustworthy responses in tactful manners. An enormous literature has been developed covering various alternative means of gathering responses in Indirect ways. The monographs by Chaudhuri and Mukerjee (1988), Chaudhuri (2011), Chaudhuri and Christofides (2013) have given many detailed accounts of the problems along with their attempted solutions. Chaudhuri et al. (2016) have reported substantially on this topic in the Handbook of Statistics 34 published by Elsevier, North Holland.

First Page

133

Last Page

157

DOI

10.1007/978-981-19-1418-8_6

Publication Date

1-1-2022

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