Validating the use of anchoring vignettes for the correction of response scale differences in subjective questions

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 575-595

  Van Soest, Arthur ^a   Delaney, Liam ^b   Harmon, Colm ^b   Kapteyn, Arie ^c   Smith, James P ^c  

^a NETSPAR   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Anchoring vignettes; Health behaviour; Reporting bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959954584     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2011.00694.x     Document Type: Article

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