Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Polling in Context
- Part II A Framework for Modern Polling
- Part III Fighting Nonignorable Nonresponse
- 7 Bounding Damage from Nonignorable Nonresponse
- 8 Selection Models for Nonignorable Nonresponse
- 9 Next-Generation Selection Models
- 10 Randomized Response Instruments
- 11 Putting It Together
- Part IV Applications
- References
- Index
10 - Randomized Response Instruments
from Part III - Fighting Nonignorable Nonresponse
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 February 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Polling in Context
- Part II A Framework for Modern Polling
- Part III Fighting Nonignorable Nonresponse
- 7 Bounding Damage from Nonignorable Nonresponse
- 8 Selection Models for Nonignorable Nonresponse
- 9 Next-Generation Selection Models
- 10 Randomized Response Instruments
- 11 Putting It Together
- Part IV Applications
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter highlights the critical importance of having the right kind of data for selection models that address nonignorable nonresponse. In general, we need a variable that is included in our response model and excluded from our outcome model. The best approach is creating a randomized response instrument that affects whether someone responds, but does not affect the content of their response. In many polling contexts, it is easy to create randomized response instruments. The pollster simply needs to figure out some protocol that affects response rate and then randomize it. Section 10.1 makes it clear that knowing the correct functional form is not enough to save a selection model. Section 10.2 highlights the difficulty of using observational response instruments. Section 10.3 discusses how and why to create randomized response instruments. Section 10.4 shows how to use randomized response instruments in a simple test for diagnosing nonignorable nonresponse. Section 10.5 shows how randomized response instruments enable us to use the full suite of selection models even when we do not observe data for nonrespondents.
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- Polling at a CrossroadsRethinking Modern Survey Research, pp. 183 - 197Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024