How to Survey About Electoral Turnout? Additional Evidence

Autor: Alexandre Morin-Chassé
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of Experimental Political Science. 5:230-233
ISSN: 2052-2649
2052-2630
Popis: Post-election surveys measure voter turnout in a variety of ways. The Canadian Election Study (CES) simply asks respondents whether or not they voted. However, existing research shows that some abstainers report having voted when they in fact did not (Granberg and Holmberg, 1991; Selb and Munzert, 2013). If this misreporting is correlated with other traits, analysis based on the data can be biased. One possible solution to reduce the incentive to overreport is to reframe the turnout question.
Databáze: OpenAIRE