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Title A measure of survey mode differences
Source Electoral Studies, 44, pp. 255-274
Year 2016
Access date 31.03.2017
Abstract
We evaluate the effects of different survey modes on respondents' patterns of answers using an entropy measure of variability. While measures of centrality show little differences between face-to-face and Internet surveys, we find strong patterns of distributional differences between these modes where Internet responses tend towards more diffuse positions due to lack of personal contact during the process and the social forces provided by that format. We introduce an entropy measure of dispersion for survey responses and illustrate its utility with election data from 2012. Our results provide clear evidence that mode matters in modern survey research, and we make recommendations for interpreting results from different modes.
Year of publication2016
Bibliographic typeJournal article
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