Proceedings of European Conference on Quality and Methodology in Official Statistics.
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Abstract: This paper presents two new tools for the identification of faking interviewers in surveys. One method is based on Benford’s Law, the other exploits the empirical observation that fakers most often produces answers with less variability than could be expected from the whole survey. We focus on fabricated data in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). For several samples the resulting rankings of the interviewers with respect to their cheating behavior are given. We further investigate the impact of evident fakers to studies that rely on the data of the survey. If the faked interviews are removed, the results can change dramatically.
Bibtex:
@inproceedings{,
title={Identification, Characteristics and Impact of Faked and Fraudulent Interviews in Surveys},
author={Sch{\"a}fer, Christin and Schr{\"a}pler, J{\"o}rg-Peter and M{\"u}ller, Klaus-Robert and Wagner, GG},
booktitle={European Conference on Quality and Methodology in Official Statistics},
year={2004}
}
Reference Type: E-Print
Subject Area(s): Economics, Psychology