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Jannetti, Matthew; Carroll-Scott, Amy; Gilliam, Erikka; Headen, Irene; Beverly, Maggie; Lê-Scherban, Félice – Field Methods, 2023
Place-based initiatives often use resident surveys to inform and evaluate interventions. Sampling based on well-defined sampling frames is important but challenging for initiatives that target subpopulations. Databases that enumerate total population counts can produce overinclusive sampling frames, resulting in costly outreach to ineligible…
Descriptors: Sampling, Probability, Definitions, Prediction
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Sun, Hanyu; Caporaso, Andrew; Cantor, David; Davis, Terisa; Blake, Kelly – Field Methods, 2023
Previous survey research has found that prompt interventions for speeding and straightlining were effective at reducing these undesirable response behaviors in web surveys. However, the effects of prompt interventions on data quality measures are mixed, and it is unclear how prompt interventions affect key survey estimates. We conducted an…
Descriptors: Prompting, Intervention, Online Surveys, Response Rates (Questionnaires)
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Lewis, Taylor; McMichael, Joseph – Field Methods, 2023
Expected yield rates are essential to a survey's data collection plan, as they inform requisite sample sizes to meet the survey's objectives. Given an overall expected yield rate for a self-administered mail survey, this short take describes a simple method for using the Census Planning Database to assign differential yield rates to lower-level…
Descriptors: Mail Surveys, Data Collection, Census Figures, Databases
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Sas, Marlies; Snaphaan, Thom; Pauwels, Lieven J. R.; Ponnet, Koen; Hardyns, Wim – Field Methods, 2023
This study focuses on the use of systematic social observations (SSO) to measure crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and disorder. To improve knowledge about measurement issues in small area research, SSO is conducted by means of three different methods: in-situ, photographs, and Google Street View (GSV) imagery. By evaluating…
Descriptors: Crime Prevention, Measurement Techniques, Photography, Observation
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Izenberg, Maxwell; Brown, Ryan; Siebert, Cora; Heinz, Ron; Rahmattalabi, Aida; Vayanos, Phebe – Field Methods, 2023
In the small town of Sitka, Alaska, frequent and often catastrophic landslides threaten residents. One challenge associated with disaster preparedness is access to timely and reliable risk information. As with many small but diverse towns, who or what is a trustworthy source of information is often contested. To help improve landslide…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Social Networks, Data Collection, Network Analysis
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Ribeiro, Ially D. O.; Batista, Natalia A. D. N.; Cunha Lima, Severina Carla V.; Jacob, Michelle Cristine M. – Field Methods, 2023
This short take explains how we developed a photographic guide for assessing biodiversity in food consumption studies with taxonomy accuracy. To build the guide, we followed the "Guidelines on Assessing Biodiverse Foods in Dietary Intake Surveys" of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. As far as we know,…
Descriptors: Guides, Biodiversity, Food, Taxonomy
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Schneider, Stefan; Jin, Haomiao; Orriens, Bart; Junghaenel, Doerte U.; Kapteyn, Arie; Meijer, Erik; Stone, Arthur A. – Field Methods, 2023
Researchers have become increasingly interested in response times to survey items as a measure of cognitive effort. We used machine learning to develop a prediction model of response times based on 41 attributes of survey items (e.g., question length, response format, linguistic features) collected in a large, general population sample. The…
Descriptors: Surveys, Response Rates (Questionnaires), Test Items, Artificial Intelligence
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Hooghe, Marc; Stiers, Dieter – Field Methods, 2023
When conducting a postal survey, a traditional recommendation is to use paper postage stamps instead of an automated postage system, to make sure that invitations have a more personal and attractive appearance. In this research note, we investigate whether this traditional recommendation is still valid. In the autumn of 2020, a postal survey was…
Descriptors: Mail Surveys, Response Rates (Questionnaires), High School Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Quimby, Barbara; Beresford, Melissa – Field Methods, 2023
Participatory modeling (PM) is an engaged research methodology for creating analog or computer-based models of complex systems, such as socio-environmental systems. Used across a range of fields, PM centers stakeholder knowledge and participation to create more internally valid models that can inform policy and increase engagement and trust…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Models, Stakeholders, World Views
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López, Daniel Jacobson; García, Antonio; Engel, Rafael; Jackson, John L., Jr. – Field Methods, 2023
There is a paucity of empirical literature examining the experiences of gay Latino sexual assault survivors in the United States, due in part because there is little research focused on how to effectively recruit and engage Latino sexual assault survivors as participants in the research process. While researchers have utilized various recruitment…
Descriptors: Males, Hispanic Americans, Sexual Abuse, Homosexuality
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Adebayo, Kudus Oluwatoyin; Njoku, Emeka T. – Field Methods, 2023
How does shared identity between researcher and the researched influence trust-building for data generation and knowledge production? We reflect on this question based on two separate studies conducted by African-based researchers in sociology and political science in Nigeria. We advanced two interrelated positions. The first underscores the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Science Research, Researchers, Interpersonal Relationship
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Balfe, Catherine; Button, Patrick; Penn, Mary; Schwegman, David J. – Field Methods, 2023
Audit correspondence studies are field experiments that test for discriminatory behavior in active markets. Researchers measure discrimination by comparing how responsive individuals ("audited units") are to correspondences from different types of people. This article elaborates on the tradeoffs researchers face between sending audited…
Descriptors: Field Studies, Experiments, Audits (Verification), Researchers
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Dorer, Brita – Field Methods, 2023
Advance translation is a method of source questionnaire development for multilingual survey projects to enhance translatability and (inter)cultural portability. The aim is to minimize translation issues in the final translation stage. I empirically tested the results of a previously conducted advance translation in a think-aloud study and analyzed…
Descriptors: Translation, Questionnaires, Surveys, Multilingualism
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Jerke, Julia; Johann, David; Rauhut, Heiko; Thomas, Kathrin; Velicu, Antonia – Field Methods, 2022
This research analyzes the effectiveness of the list experiment and crosswise model in measuring self-plagiarism and data manipulation. Both methods were implemented in a large-scale survey of academics on social norms and academic misconduct. As the results lend little confidence about the effectiveness of the methods, researchers are best…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Cheating, Teacher Surveys, Foreign Countries
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West, Brady T.; Axinn, William G.; Couper, Mick P.; Gatny, Heather; Schroeder, Heather – Field Methods, 2022
Event history calendars (EHCs) are frequently used in social measurement to capture important information about the time ordering of events in people's lives and enable inference about the relationships of the events with other outcomes of interest. To date, EHCs have primarily been designed for face-to-face or telephone survey interviewing, and…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Time, Online Surveys, Contraception
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