Replication Data for: Response Bias in Survey Measures of Voter Behavior: Implications for Measurement and Inference
<|begin_of_text|><|start_header_id|>system<|end_header_id|> You are a research archivist expert in dataset metadata. Answer the question truthfully.  <|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|> Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'This short report exploits a unique opportunity to investigate the implications of response bias in survey questions about voter turnout and vote choice in new democracies. We analyze data from a field experiment in Benin, where we gathered official elections results and panel survey data representative at the village level, allowing us to directly compare average outcomes across both measurement instruments in a large number of units. We show that survey respondentsconsistently over-report turning out to vote and voting for the incumbent, that the biasis large and worse in contexts where question sensitivity is higher. This has important effects on the inferences we draw about an experimental treatment, indicating that the response bias we identify is correlated with treatment. Although the results using the survey data suggest tha' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|> {"Answer" : ["Experiment","Response Bias","Voting Behavior"]} <|eot_id|>
 Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'This short report exploits a unique opportunity to investigate the implications of response bias in survey questions about voter turnout and vote choice in new democracies. We analyze data from a field experiment in Benin, where we gathered official elections results and panel survey data representative at the village level, allowing us to directly compare average outcomes across both measurement instruments in a large number of units. We show that survey respondentsconsistently over-report turning out to vote and voting for the incumbent, that the biasis large and worse in contexts where question sensitivity is higher. This has important effects on the inferences we draw about an experimental treatment, indicating that the response bias we identify is correlated with treatment. Although the results using the survey data suggest tha' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.
This short report exploits a unique opportunity to investigate the implications of response bias in survey questions about voter turnout and vote choice in new democracies. We analyze data from a field experiment in Benin, where we gathered official elections results and panel survey data representative at the village level, allowing us to directly compare average outcomes across both measurement instruments in a large number of units. We show that survey respondentsconsistently over-report turning out to vote and voting for the incumbent, that the biasis large and worse in contexts where question sensitivity is higher. This has important effects on the inferences we draw about an experimental treatment, indicating that the response bias we identify is correlated with treatment. Although the results using the survey data suggest tha
Experiment; Response Bias; Voting Behavior