Claire L. Adida|Karen E. Ferree|Daniel Posner|Amanda Lea Robinson
Who’s Asking? Interviewer Coethnicity Effects in African Survey Data
University of California, San Diego|University of California, San Diego|University of California, Los Angeles|The Ohio State University
facetoface interviews constitute social interaction interviewer respondent african context social interactions strongly shaped ethnicity yet research using african survey data typically fails account effect shared ethnicity survey responses find respondents give systematically different answers coethnic noncoethnic interviewers across surveys 14 african countries significant variation degree bias across question types types noncoethnic dyads largest effects occurring respondent interviewer members ethnic groups history political competition conflict respondent interviewer shares ethnicity head state findings practical implications consumers african survey data underscore context dependence social interaction constitutes survey experience