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Research apps allow to administer survey questions and passively collect smartphone data, thus providing rich information on individual …

Survey data producers increasingly provide estimates of nonresponse bias in several variables when they release or analyze data. …

People consistently overreport how much news they consume. We compared survey responses to passively collected behavioral data and found large gaps, highlighting the need to combine data sources for accurate measurement.

Motivated misreporting occurs when respondents give incorrect responses to survey questions to shorten the interview; studies have …

Do survey respondents learn to game the questionnaire over time? We tested this in the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey and found the opposite. Responses actually improve in later waves.

Although counts of the novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infections and deaths are reported by several sources online, precise estimation …

Filter questions are used to administer follow-up questions to eligible respondents while allowing respondents who are not eligible to …

We find rotation group bias in reports of spending in the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey. Contrary to our expectations, the more …

High response rates don’t always mean good data. Using seven rounds of the European Social Survey, we show that when interviewers help select who gets surveyed, high response rates can actually signal worse data quality.

Many surveys aim to achieve high response rates to keep bias due to nonresponse low. However, research has shown that the relationship …