In the randomized response model, which of the following questions would NOT be appropriate for pairing with this question: Have you ever shoplifted?
a. Were you born prior to 1960?
b. Do you cheat on your income taxes?
c. Is your birthday in September?
d. Are you male or female?
e. All of the above could be paired with the question.
Question 2Which of the following is NOT true about the randomized-response model?
a. The particular question asked is selected at random.
b. The interviewer does not know which question the respondent is answering.
c. The probability of the sensitive question asked is not known.
d. The probability of the innocuous event occurring is known.
e. It requires sophisticated statistical analysis.
Question 3Which of the following statements is INCORRECT with respect to the randomized-response model?
a. The respondent answers one of several paired questions at random.
b. The interviewer knows which question is being answered by the respondent.
c. It is not possible to link responses to the paired questions with other responses such as demographic characteristics.
d. The respondent is less likely to refuse to answer or to answer untruthfully if the randomized-response model is used.
e. Answers to sensitive questions are more likely to be truthful.
Question 4Which of the following does NOT affect a respondent's willingness to produce a response?
a. Amount of work involved.
b. The person's ability to articulate an answer.
c. The sensitivity of the issue.
d. The individual's ability to remember the event.
e. All of the above affect a respondent's willingness to provide a response.
Question 5Which of the following is FALSE?
a. There is a definite increase in claimed awareness when a respondent's memory is jogged using a recognition measure rather than an aided recall measure.
b. One thing that affects a respondent's willingness to provide an answer is the amount of work involved in producing it.
c. The only historically successful way of asking about a sensitive issue is to state that the behavior or attitude is not unusual before asking the specific questions of the respondent.
d. In general it is better to address sensitive issues later, rather than earlier, in the survey.
e. The randomized response model is sometimes used to secure sensitive information.
Question 6Which of the following do NOT impact an individual's ability to remember information sought by a researcher?
a. The presence or absence of stimuli that assist in remembering an event.
b. The importance of the event to be remembered.
c. The length of time since the event to be remembered occurred.
d. All of the above impact an individual's ability to remember information.
e. Both b and c.
Question 7Which of the following is TRUE?
a. A filter question can be used to determine if a questionnaire respondent is familiar with a certain topic.
b. Any questionnaire response is a good response.
c. Telescoping error refers to the fact that people tend to remember only events that have occurred rather recently.
d. An optimal reference period used for framing questions is about one year.
e. All of the above are false.
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