Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods
Accurate understanding of peoples’ livelihoods activities is needed to inform effective policy. Existing evidence relies heavily on studies that use designated respondents to provide information about their household members, imposing significant costs on these respondents along with possible distor...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Ambler, Kate Herskowitz, Sylvan Maredia, Karim M. |
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| description | Accurate understanding of peoples’ livelihoods activities is needed to inform effective policy. Existing evidence relies heavily on studies that use designated respondents to provide information about their household members, imposing significant costs on these respondents along with possible distortions in the data. In rural Ghana, we randomize the order that household members are asked about and estimate that response fatigue leads to undercounting of labor activities by 8% on average. Women are twice as impacted as men while youth are four times as impacted as older adults, distorting both within-household and population wide comparisons. These biases result from women and youth being listed systematically later in rosters and stronger effects of fatigue for them, conditional on roster position. The implications of our results extend to other topics of enquiry as well, wherever similar repetitive survey structures are deployed, such as birth records, plot-level inputs, and household consumption and expenditures. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1435652025-12-02T21:03:03Z Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods Ambler, Kate Herskowitz, Sylvan Maredia, Karim M. gender surveys households employment youth labour livelihoods rural areas methodology Accurate understanding of peoples’ livelihoods activities is needed to inform effective policy. Existing evidence relies heavily on studies that use designated respondents to provide information about their household members, imposing significant costs on these respondents along with possible distortions in the data. In rural Ghana, we randomize the order that household members are asked about and estimate that response fatigue leads to undercounting of labor activities by 8% on average. Women are twice as impacted as men while youth are four times as impacted as older adults, distorting both within-household and population wide comparisons. These biases result from women and youth being listed systematically later in rosters and stronger effects of fatigue for them, conditional on roster position. The implications of our results extend to other topics of enquiry as well, wherever similar repetitive survey structures are deployed, such as birth records, plot-level inputs, and household consumption and expenditures. 2020-12-01 2024-05-22T12:15:07Z 2024-05-22T12:15:07Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143565 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133739 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134694 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102736 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ambler, Kate; Herskowitz, Sylvan; and Maredia, Mywish. 2020. Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1980. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134183. |
| spellingShingle | gender surveys households employment youth labour livelihoods rural areas methodology Ambler, Kate Herskowitz, Sylvan Maredia, Karim M. Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods |
| title | Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods |
| title_full | Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods |
| title_fullStr | Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods |
| title_full_unstemmed | Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods |
| title_short | Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods |
| title_sort | are we done yet response fatigue and rural livelihoods |
| topic | gender surveys households employment youth labour livelihoods rural areas methodology |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143565 |
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