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

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.contributor.donorBill & Melinda Gates Foundationen
cg.contributor.donorForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdomen
cg.contributor.donorInternational Development Research Centreen
cg.contributor.donorWorld Banken
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ET
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierKibrom Abay: 0000-0003-1451-2421
cg.creator.identifierGuush Berhane: 0000-0002-1947-9483
cg.creator.identifierJohn Hoddinott: 0000-0002-0590-3917
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134381en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.number2017en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorAbay, Kibrom A.en
dc.contributor.authorBerhane, Guushen
dc.contributor.authorHoddinott, John F.en
dc.contributor.authorTafere, Kibromen
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-22T12:14:05Zen
dc.date.available2024-05-22T12:14:05Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143430
dc.titleAssessing response fatigue in phone surveys: Experimental evidence on dietary diversity in Ethiopiaen
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
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
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
dcterms.extent28 p.en
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Discussion Paperen
dcterms.issued2021-04-29
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134146en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134735en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/134381en
dcterms.subjectdataen
dcterms.subjectsurveysen
dcterms.subjectcovid-19en
dcterms.subjectcapacity developmenten
dcterms.subjectdieten
dcterms.subjectdietary diversityen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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