[Politico] . - Anna Brown reports on a study of survey respondents' assumptions about their interviewers' race.
Bellan SE, Fiorella KJ, Melesse DY, Getz WM, Williams BG, Dushoff J. Extra-couple HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa: a mathematical modelling study of survey data.
Previous studies of survey data from the U.S. and other countries find that women tend to understate their body weight on average, while both men and women overstate their height on average.
Psychology and the social sciences have a long tradition of survey methodology research [ 11- 13], and already in the early 1970s, Sudman and Bradburn [ 14] were able to include more than 800 sources in their review of studies of survey response effects.
We found only two published studies of satisfaction surveys conducted for a breastfeeding clinic [ 12, 13].
Few high-quality, population-based studies were identified: the majority of studies were surveys of hospital clinic attendees.
In 1997 the Journal of Investing studied surveys of economists done by the Wall Street Journal since 1981.
"Almost 40 years of studies, surveys, and experience strongly indicate, however, that this effort has failed".
Meanwhile, Salma Wahba, UNICEF Adolescence Officer, presented the preliminary results of the study, Survey of Young People in Egypt.
For example, only six studies recruited participants of varying background and ages whereas most of the studies relied on surveys of university students.
