IMPROVING DATA MEASUREMENT IN SURVEYS OF THE ELDERLY

改进老年人调查中的数据测量

• 批准号: 6098100
• 负责人: DANIEL MCFADDEN
• 金额: $ 26.2万
• 依托单位: NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-30 至 1999-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6098100
• 关键词: aging; behavioral /social science research tag; belief; computer program /software; data collection methodology /evaluation; disease /disorder proneness /risk; health behavior; health economics; health services research tag; human data; human mortality; human old age (65+); income; population survey; preference; retirement; socioeconomics

Accurate responses to surveys of elderly populations are essential for tracking the impacts of health and economic policy on economic status and behavior. While data quality control and treatment of response problems are central concerns in all consumer surveys, economic studies are often too sanguine about the reliability of survey data. In particular, costly and time-consuming pilot surveys are a blunt instrument for refining survey questions, providing only limited evidence on response errors. The objective of this proposal is to develop new methods for survey question design, through experimental methods that permit rapid and inexpensive testing of alternative formats, through experimental methods that permit rapid and inexpensive testing of alternative formats, through systematic study of major sources of response error, and through the development of experimental designs and tools that permit detection of response errors and adjustments to offset their impact of economic analyses. The project will concentrate on health and economic subjects where response errors are a concern: reported household income, assets, and health-related expenditures; beliefs and intentions regarding retirement, health, and mortality; and risk perception and preference. We will draw particularly on the HRS and AHEAD surveys of older persons for topics and questions where accuracy is critical, and upon psychological experiments to identify cognitive abnormalities such as anchoring, framing, and prominence effects, that may cause problems in responses to these questions. A central and innovative component of the proposal involves the development, user, and evaluation of an Internet Virtual Laboratory (IVL) setting that allows quick and flexible testing of survey questions. Because the mechanics and properties of virtual laboratory operation are not fully developed or documented, particularly for elderly populations, the project will include detailed analyses of sample representation and response characteristics of internet surveys, as compared with more traditional survey approaches.

对老年人口调查的准确答复对于 跟踪卫生和经济政策对经济状况的影响 和行为。同时数据质量控制和响应处理 问题是所有消费者调查、经济研究的核心关注点 人们往往对调查数据的可靠性过于乐观。在 特别是，昂贵且耗时的试点调查是一种生硬的做法 用于完善调查问题的工具，仅提供有限的 响应错误的证据。该提案的目的是 通过实验开发调查问题设计的新方法 允许快速且廉价地测试替代品的方法 格式，通过允许快速且廉价的实验方法 通过对专业的系统研究来测试替代格式 响应误差的来源，并通过实验的发展 允许检测响应错误的设计和工具 调整以抵消经济分析的影响。项目 将专注于回答错误的健康和经济主题 值得关注的问题：报告的家庭收入、资产和健康相关的 支出；有关退休、健康和 死亡;以及风险认知和偏好。我们会特别画 关于 HRS 和 AHEAD 老年人调查的主题和问题 准确性至关重要，并且根据心理学实验 识别认知异常，例如锚定、框架和 突出效应，可能会导致对这些问题的反应出现问题 问题。该提案的一个核心和创新部分涉及 互联网虚拟实验室的开发、用户和评估 (IVL) 设置允许快速灵活地测试调查 问题。因为虚拟实验室的力学和性能 操作尚未完全开发或记录，特别是对于 老年人口，该项目将包括详细分析 互联网调查的样本代表性和响应特征， 与更传统的调查方法相比。