Capturing Sensitive Information from Difficult-to-Reach Populations : Evidence from a Novel Internet-Based Survey in Yemen
As conflicts across the globe escalate and data collection in these settings becomes more sensitive, policy makers and researchers are forced to turn to alternative methods for accurately collecting vital information. This paper assesses the abilit...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099351409142273622/IDU052c6b56d09e42044ba092870a7c64d0906b1 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/38025 |
| Summary: | As conflicts across the globe
escalate and data collection in these settings becomes more
sensitive, policy makers and researchers are forced to turn
to alternative methods for accurately collecting vital
information. This paper assesses the ability of novel and
anonymous internet-based surveys to elicit sensitive
information in the Republic of Yemen's conflict by
comparing identical sensitive and non-sensitive questions in
an internet survey to a concurrent mobile phone survey.
There were significant differences between the modalities in
all the sensitive questions, with a greater share of
respondents expressing sensitive views in the internet
survey. The differences between modalities was larger for
sensitive questions than for non-sensitive questions, and
all the differences were qualitatively identical for subsets
of the sample that are underrepresented in internet surveys.
Overall, the results suggest that internet surveys can be an
effective tool to use in conjunction with other techniques
to acquire information that would otherwise be difficult to collect. |
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