Is the anchoring vignette method sensitive to the domain and choice of the vignette?

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

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 597-620

  Voňková, Hana ^a,b   Hullegie, Patrick ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Anchoring vignettes; Compound hierarchical ordered probit model; Heterogeneity in reporting behaviour; Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959970111     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2011.00704.x     Document Type: Article

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