Elaborate Item Count Questioning: Why Do People Underreport in Item Count Responses?

The item count technique, used often to investigate illegal or socially undesirable behaviours, requires respondents to indicate merely the number of applicable items from among a list. However, the number of applicable items indicated via the item count question tends to be smaller than when it is...

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Main Authors: Takahiro Tsuchiya, Yoko Hirai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Survey Research Association 2010-12-01
Series:Survey Research Methods
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Online Access:https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/view/4620