The Implementation of Experimental Surveys for Data-Quality Improvement.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19530461
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Sociology
Research Institution	Aomori University
Principal Investigator	YOSHIMURA Harumasa Aomori University, 社会学部, 准教授 (60326626)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	澁谷泰秀青森大学, 社会学部, 教授 (40226189) 渡部諭青森大学, 社会学部, 教授 (40240486)
Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha)	澁谷泰秀青森大学, 社会学部, 教授 (40226189) 渡部諭東北芸術工科大学, 教養教育センター, 教授 (40240486)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2009
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2009)
Budget Amount *help	¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000) Fiscal Year 2009: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000) Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000) Fiscal Year 2007: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Keywords	社会調査 / 郵送調査法 / 回答バイアス / 非回答バイアス / 社会学
Research Abstract	Aiming at repressing non-response and response errors, two experimental surveys were organized. We assumed two factors that affect response behaviors : cost-perception and risk-perception. Unfortunately, the cost-perception test failed due largely to inadequate experimental condition setting. The risk-perception test revealed that people tend to respond as they perceive low risk to answer. However, the difference was rather tiny and inadequate to examine our hypothesis that the risk-perception would vary by demographic variables which results in the appearance of non-response bias.