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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.

Livestock are an important component of rural livelihoods in developing countries, but data about this source of income and wealth are …

Many face-to-face surveys use field staff to create lists of housing units from which samples are selected. However, housing unit …

The half-open interval procedure seems to offer an inexpensive method of reducing undercoverage in housing unit frames during data …

Using an experimental repeated listing design, this article demonstrates the presence of confirmation bias in dependent housing unit …

Web panels miss people without internet access. The LISS panel provided devices to non-internet households. We tested whether this extra effort actually reduced bias in research findings.