Does Interviewer Religious Dress Affect Survey Responses? Evidence from Morocco

Benstead, Lindsay J.

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“…Previous research has shown that survey responses are associated with enumerator characteristics such as gender (Huddy et al, 1997;Flores Macias and Lawson, 2008), religion (Blaydes and Gillum, 2013;Benstead, 2014), ethnicity (Adida et al, 2016), experience and personality traits (Jäckle et al, 2013), differences in social status with the respondent (Kane and Macaulay, 1993), or even physical attractiveness (Jaeger, 2016).…”

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Be Wary of Those Who Ask: A Randomized Experiment on the Size and Determinants of the Enumerator Effect

Maio

Fiala

2019

The World Bank Economic Review

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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Be Wary of Those Who Ask: A Randomized Experiment on the Size and Determinants of the Enumerator Effect

Maio

Fiala

2019

The World Bank Economic Review

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“…Moreover, these characteristics can have interaction effects. More recent research (Benstead, 2013(Benstead, , 2014 demonstrated an interaction of interviewer effects between gender and religiosity (operationalized as wearing hijab) in Morocco, as religious respondents reported differently to an unveiled interviewer.…”

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Toward a social psychology of survey methodology: An application of the approach and directions for the future

Brenner

2017

Sociology Compass

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Survey methodology is a relatively new academic discipline focused on understanding sources of survey errors. As an interdisciplinary field, survey methodology borrows theoretical approaches from other disciplines and applies them to understand how survey respondents answer questions. One field in particular, cognitive psychology, has played a central role in the development of survey methodology. The cognitive approach has focused researchers' attentions on the sources of error at each stage of the cognitive process respondents use to answer a survey question: comprehension of the question, recollection of relevant information, estimation and judgment, and reporting an answer. Although this focus on the cognitive response process has been positive and fruitful, potentially strong social and interactional influences on the response process have been underinvestigated and undertheorized. Thus, this essay argues for a revitalized research program in the sociological social psychology of survey methodology, given its rich body of theory and research. The current strengths of social psychological and interactional approaches are highlighted, focusing primarily on recent work using identity theory to understand social desirability biases. Finally, potentially fruitful future directions for research are proposed, matching sociological social psychological theories to the survey errors upon which they may shed light.

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“…In MENA, clothing expresses individual, family, and community identity, and conservatism or religion (Benstead 2014). Women's styles range from jeans and tunics modified with a headscarf (hijab) to a scarf and loose coat worn over clothing (djlabah), occasionally with a face veil (niqab).…”

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Coke, Pepsi or Mecca Cola? Why product characteristics affect the likelihood of collective action problems and boycott success

Benstead

Reif

2015

Politics, Groups, and Identities

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Under what conditions do individuals who profess to boycott products align actual and intended consumption habits? Inconsistency between self-reported participation and practice can help explain why few boycott campaigns harm targets despite high political consumption rates reported in surveys of Americans and Europeans. Arab boycotts are fertile yet unexplored settings in which to assess this proposition. Using data from 820 Algerian students surveyed after the 2004 Abu Ghraib scandal, we evaluate whether boycotters are more likely than others to weigh countryof-origin in preferences for soda, clothing, and mobile phones. Almost 60% claimed to boycott US goods -consistent with crossnational survey rates and a 2007 nationally representative survey of 800 Algerians -but fewer respondents expressed actual brand preferences consistent with this desire. We extend the political consumption literature by expanding its geographic scope and elaborating a mechanism by which product characteristics minimize or magnify collective action problems that undermine participation. Our results suggest that political consumers are more likely to maintain boycott behavior when targeting substitutable goods linked closely to identity (symbolic and visible), thereby reducing direct and information costs and enabling social network enforcement. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Does Interviewer Religious Dress Affect Survey Responses? Evidence from Morocco

Cited by 42 publications

References 31 publications

Be Wary of Those Who Ask: A Randomized Experiment on the Size and Determinants of the Enumerator Effect

Be Wary of Those Who Ask: A Randomized Experiment on the Size and Determinants of the Enumerator Effect

Toward a social psychology of survey methodology: An application of the approach and directions for the future

Coke, Pepsi or Mecca Cola? Why product characteristics affect the likelihood of collective action problems and boycott success

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