Conditional Pop-up Reminders Reduce Incidence of Rounding in Web Surveys

Frequency of behaviors or amounts of variables of interest are essential topics in many surveys. The use of heuristics might cause rounded answers, resulting in the increased occurrence of end-digits (called heaping or digit-preference). For web surveys (or CASI), we propose using a conditional prom...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Field methods 2022-11, Vol.34 (4), p.334-345
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