The Two Alternate Questions Randomized Response Model for Human Surveys

Folsom, R; Greenberg, Bernard; Horvitz, Daniel G.; Abernathy, James R.

doi:10.2307/2284771

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“…This study used the two-alternate-questions randomized response model (Folsom, Greenberg, Horvitz, & Abernathy, 1973), adapted so that responses could be quantitative rather than dichotomous. The aim of this technique is to calculate the frequency of some sensitive event, in our case, the number of prior sexual offenses committed by our sample.…”

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confidence: 99%

Improving the Measurement of Criminal Sexual Behavior

Miner

2008

Sex Abuse

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Randomized responding technique (RRT), a method for maintaining anonymity, was used with a sample of sexual offenders recruited into a treatment outcome study. Prior to release from incarceration, three groups--those randomly assigned to treatment, those randomly assigned to no-treatment control, and those who refused participation in the treatment study but consented to a prerelease interview--participated in an alternate-questions RRT procedure. This procedure pairs a nonsensitive question with the sensitive question of interest, in this case, the number of prior sex offenses. Respondents answered either the sensitive or nonsensitive question, depending on the results of a randomizing device (roll of dice). The distributions for the nonsensitive questions were highly skewed; therefore, the outliers were removed and RRT estimates calculated. RRT estimates of prior offending (2.20 prior offenses) were significantly higher than officially recorded prior offenses (0.51 prior offenses). The pattern of differences between treatment and control groups were similar in RRT estimates and officially recorded priors, as were the correlations between RRT estimates and other self-report scales. These results provide preliminary evidence that RRT is a useful method for generating reoffending data that are more sensitive than officially recorded offenses and that contain less bias than other self-reports.

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Section: Randomized Response Techniquementioning

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Improving the Measurement of Criminal Sexual Behavior

Miner

2008

Sex Abuse

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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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confidence: 99%