Effects of Time and Memory Factors on Response in Surveys

Sudman, Seymour; Bradburn, Norman M.

doi:10.1080/01621459.1973.10481428

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“…Some studies have suggested that recollection for the timing of past events is affected by the time elapsed since the event (Janson 1990;Bachman and O'Malley 1981;Sudman and Bradburn 1973). A ''telescoping'' effect occurs when, compared to more recent events, distant events are recalled as having occurred somewhat closer to the time of recall.…”

Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Genetic and Environmental Influences on Age at Sexual Initiation in the Colorado Adoption Project

et al. 2006

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Whereas the majority of research on adolescent sexual initiation has focused solely on environmental factors, the present study used behavioral genetic analyses to investigate the relative contributions of genetic and environmental influences. Structural equation models were fitted to data from adoptive and non-adoptive sibling pairs (231 biologically related pairs and 169 unrelated pairs) from the Colorado Adoption Project. Information from censored individuals who had not yet experienced sexual initiation was maximized by adapting the twin survival analysis method of Pickles et al. (Behav Genet 24(5):457-468, 1994) to accommodate adoptive and non-adoptive siblings. Point estimates of variance components from an ACE model, including additive genetic (A), shared environmental (C), and non-shared environmental (E) influences were 28%, 24%, and 48%, respectively. Despite the lower point estimate for shared environmental effects than additive genetic effects, a CE model provided the best fit to the data. However, because adoptive siblings provide a direct estimate of shared environmental influences there is greater power to detect shared environmental effects in adoption designs. Evidence for genetic influences from our data were somewhat lower than those obtained in previous twin studies, possibly reflecting a return to more socially conservative sexual attitudes, changing sexual behaviors, or ambiguities in the wording of questions commonly used in research on adolescent sexuality.

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Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Genetic and Environmental Influences on Age at Sexual Initiation in the Colorado Adoption Project

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“…Whether or not recall problems occur often depends on the recall period. Underreporting of events is found to increase as time since the event elapses (Sudman and Bradburn 1973;1974). Particularly for the oldest birth cohorts and the earliest periods of calendar time included in the analysis, recall errors may thus affect the quality of retrospectively estimated indicators (Neels 2006;Kreyenfeld et al 2010;Sauer, Ruckdeschel, and Naderi 2012).…”

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Quality of demographic data in GGS Wave 1

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“…Neter (1970) also studied recall errors, telescoping errors, reporting load effects, and conditioning effects in repeated interviewing. Sudman and Bradburn (1973) studied the retrieval of memories of past events by using an exponential model to describe the proportion of events that are reported as a function of the length of duration since the event. Using Weber's law, Sudman and Bradburn evaluated the relative error in the length of the time period reported.…”

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confidence: 99%