Assessing response fatigue in phone surveys: Experimental evidence on dietary diversity in Ethiopia

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Marketsen_US
cg.contributor.donorBill & Melinda Gates Foundationen_US
cg.contributor.donorForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdomen_US
cg.contributor.donorInternational Development Research Centreen_US
cg.contributor.donorWorld Banken_US
cg.coverage.countryEthiopiaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ETen_US
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africaen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierKibrom Abay: 0000-0003-1451-2421en_US
cg.creator.identifierGuush Berhane: 0000-0002-1947-9483en_US
cg.creator.identifierJohn Hoddinott: 0000-0002-0590-3917en_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134381en_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Divisionen_US
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot rankeden_US
cg.number2017en_US
cg.placeWashington, DCen_US
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen_US
dc.contributor.authorAbay, Kibrom A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBerhane, Guushen_US
dc.contributor.authorHoddinott, John F.en_US
dc.contributor.authorTafere, Kibromen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-22T12:14:05Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-05-22T12:14:05Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143430en_US
dc.titleAssessing response fatigue in phone surveys: Experimental evidence on dietary diversity in Ethiopiaen_US
dcterms.abstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has spurred interest in the use of remote data collection techniques, including phone surveys, in developing country contexts. This interest has sparked new methodological work focusing on the advantages and disadvantages of different forms of remote data collection, the use of incentives to increase response rates and how to address sample representativeness. By contrast, attention given to associated response fatigue and its implications remains limited. To assess this, we designed and implemented an experiment that randomized the placement of a survey module on women’s dietary diversity in the survey instrument. We also examine potential differential vulnerabilities to fatigue across food groups and respondents. We find that delaying the timing of mothers’ food consumption module by 15 minutes leads to 8-17 percent decrease in the dietary diversity score and a 28 percent decrease in the number of mothers who consumed a minimum of four dietary groups. This is driven by underreporting of infrequently consumed foods; the experimentally induced delay in the timing of mothers’ food consumption module led to a 40 and 11 percent decrease in the reporting of consumption of animal source foods, and fruits and vegetables, respectively. Our results are robust to changes in model specification and pass falsification tests. Responses by older and less educated mothers and those from larger households are more vulnerable to measurement error due to fatigue.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAbay, Kibrom A.; Berhane, Guush; Hoddinott, John F.; and Tafere, Kibrom. 2021. Assessing response fatigue in phone surveys: Experimental evidence on dietary diversity in Ethiopia. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2017. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134381.en_US
dcterms.extent28 p.en_US
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Discussion Paperen_US
dcterms.issued2021-04-29en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134146en_US
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134735en_US
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/134381en_US
dcterms.subjectdataen_US
dcterms.subjectsurveysen_US
dcterms.subjectcovid-19en_US
dcterms.subjectcapacity developmenten_US
dcterms.subjectdieten_US
dcterms.subjectdietary diversityen_US
dcterms.typeWorking Paperen_US

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