The Phantom Respondents : Opinion Surveys and Political Representation
John Brehm
- Heisenberg uncertainty principle : by measuring a phenomena, one defines what the phenomena looks like.
- this book à a model of survey participation
- why do people participate in surveys
o contact
o eligible and capable
o comply with request to be interviewed
- comply
o relationship to
§ strangers
§ interviewer
§ interview
§ self image
- non response data
o interviewer supplied information
o reluctant vs amenable respondents
§ reluctant respondents treated as proxy for non respondents
§ response to survey is a continuum , not a dichotomy
o mini questionnaire
- Modelling corrections for non response
o weighting
- If we can model why people participate in surveys, then we have the means to correct for model misspecification
- ask respondent times when they would have been available à can't find reference
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