How Widespread is Survey Misreporting? Validating the Accuracy of Self-reported Sociodemographic Variables

• In Event: Survey Methodology

Brief Overview

In a rare analysis, we match public registry data in Finland with survey self-reports of key sociodemographics.The data includes 72,726 validated survey responses. Only 2.4% of the responses conflicted with the registry.

Author

• Lauri Rapeli, Abo Akademi University