Optimization of the Unrelated Question Randomized Response Model

Moors, J.J.A.

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“…Scholars have assessed the method's efficiency within various designs (e.g. Moors 1971, Dowling & Shachtman 1975, Pollock & Bek 1976) and compared them to estimates from direct questioning (e.g. , Krumpal 2012, Rosenfeld et al 2014, Gingerich et al 2014.…”

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Design and Analysis of the Randomized Response Technique

Blair

Imai

Zhou

2015

Journal of the American Statistical Association

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About a half century ago, Warner (1965) proposed the randomized response method as a survey technique to reduce potential bias due to non-response and social desirability when asking questions about sensitive behaviors and beliefs. This method asks respondents to use a randomization device, such as a coin flip, whose outcome is unobserved by the interviewer.By introducing random noise, the method conceals individual responses and protects respondent privacy. While numerous methodological advances have been made, we find surprisingly few applications of this promising survey technique. In this paper, we address this gap by (1) reviewing standard designs available to applied researchers, (2) developing various multivariate regression techniques for substantive analyses, (3) proposing power analyses to help improve research designs, (4) presenting new robust designs that are based on less stringent assumptions than those of the standard designs, and (5) making all described methods available through open-source software. We illustrate some of these methods with an original survey about militant groups in Nigeria.

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“…Unlike the other designs, this design introduces an unrelated question in order to increase respondents' compliance with survey instruction. Furthermore, Moors (1971) shows that this design is more efficient than the mirror question, and it allows for quantitative responses.…”

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Design and Analysis of the Randomized Response Technique

Blair

Imai

Zhou

2015

Journal of the American Statistical Association

141

118

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“…To encourage cooperation of the respondents and truthful answers, and to procure trustworthy data for estimating the proportion of people bearing a socially disapproved characteristic in a community, Warner (1965) first introduced a procedure called the randomized response technique for collecting data on sensitive issues while trying to protect respondents' privacy. Subsequently, various extensions have been introduced (see, for example, Anthony, 1990;Chaudhuri, 1987;Horvitz et al, 1967;Manget and Singh, 1990;Moors, 1971; among others). The basic purpose of such methods or techniques is to estimate the proportion, in a population, of the respondents with sensitive character, whose truthful response to a sensitive question would be "yes", without exposing respondents' privacy to the interviewer, and consequently avoiding social stigma or fear of reprisals.…”

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“…If protection degree is not considered, Gupta et al's RR design is more efficient than the scrambled RR technique suggested by Eichhorn and Hayre (1983). As for efficiency of RR device, several researchers (Dowing and Shachtman, 1975;Eichhorn and Hayre, 1983;Folsom et al, 1973;Greenberg et al, 1969Greenberg et al, , 1971Gupta et al, 2002;Moors, 1971) have contributed to the further development of Warner's model by having compared their strategies, using variance as the measure of efficiency. It is observed that, generally speaking, the efficiency of a strategy increases when the level of response confidentiality decreases.…”

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An Efficiency and Protection Degree-Based Comparison Among the Quantitative Randomized Response Strategies

Yan

Wang

Lai

2008

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

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There have been many alternative strategies for implementing sampling survey on quantitative characteristic of sensitive issues by using randomized response (RR) technique. The efficiency of most of those strategies has been improved by choosing the suitable design parameters of model. However, the two different procedures with pre-assigned design parameter values cannot ensure that they possess the same protection degree to the respondents. Some earlier comparisons of those strategies are inadequate (as in Eichhorn and Hayre, 1983;Gupta et al., 2002). Some literature contains a more comprehensive comparison based on efficiency and protection degree to the respondents among the qualitative characteristic RR techniques (see Bhargava and Singh, 2002;Nayak, 1994;Zaizai and Zankan, 2004). As far as the comparisons are concerned that are based on efficiency and protection degree to the respondents among the quantitative characteristic RR techniques, very few related studies have been found so far. The purpose of this article is to give a more adequate comparison among those earlier quantitative characteristic RR strategies. It is found that several important differences between the results obtained in this article and some known results exist. Therefore, these earlier RR strategies should be reevaluated.

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“…Several other workers have contributed to the further development of Warner's (1965) strategy (Abul-Ela et al, 1967;Horvitz et al, 1967;Greenberg et al, 1969;Moors, 1971;Erikson, 1973;Folsom et al, 1973;Raghavarao, 1978;Mangat and Singh, 1990;and Mangat, 1994).…”

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