Shapero and Sokol (1982) examine the concept of desirability using data on the family (particularly the father or mother), peer groups, educational and professional contexts and cultural values held by potential entrepreneurs.
In view of the desirability of obtaining data relevant to protracted or low-dose radiation exposures, the National Radiological Protection Board (now the Radiation Protection Division of the Health Protection Agency) started the National Registry for Radiation Workers (NRRW) in 1976.
Though various measures were taken to improve the validity of the data, social desirability effect was almost inherent in such research methods (see Brown, 2001; Gorden, 1998).
However, Shapero (1982) examines the concept of desirability for entrepreneurship using data on the family and peer groups and concludes that, in particular, the father or mother plays the most powerful role in establishing the desirability of the entrepreneurial behavior.
This design problem is expressed as an optimization problem using the desirability function, where the data generated by finite element analysis is converted to an artificial neural network model.
The study identified ten main types of limitation in these practices reported in the literature: sample characteristic limitations, methodological limitations, psychometric limitations, qualitative research limitations, missing data, social desirability bias, item limitations, brevity of the scale, difficulty controlling all variables, and lack of manual instructions.
Therefore, the influence of social desirability bias in heiQ data can largely be ruled out.
There are several possible explanations for our findings, i.e. lack of social desirability bias in heiQ data.
Audio Computer-Assisted Self-Interview (ACASI) techniques increase privacy and are therefore expected to decrease social desirability bias, thereby enhancing data quality and reliability.
The influence of culture and social desirability on self-reported data on social drivers such as gender norms and VCT utilization or alcohol use is unknown.
