caa a22 4500 469037288 CHVBK 20180323132759.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00300560 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00300560 Measuring social indicators in opinion surveys: A method to improve accuracy on sensitive questions [Elektronische Daten] [Toni Makkai, Ian Mcallister] Asking sensitive questions, without risking a terminated interview or response bias, is a major problem in deriving accurate social indicators based on public opinion surveys. This problem has become particularly acute as the topics that interest researchers have become more personal in nature. Mail and telephone surveys, and methods such as the randomized response technique, have all been used to try and overcome this problem, with varying degrees of success. In this paper, we describe an alternative approach using a sealed booklet. We report results from a question-format experiment that asked respondents the same sensitive questions in a sealed booklet, completed in the presence of the interviewer, and in a standard face-to-face interview. The survey used for the experiment was a personal interview survey of drug use based on a national population sample. The sealed booklet format was found to produce more accurate estimates of drug use compared to direct questions. In addition to assuring the respondent greater anonymity, the sealed booklet permits a wide range of questions to be asked and does not limit the analyses that can be conducted on the data. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Makkai Toni Department of Law Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 2600, Canberra, ACT, Australia aut Mcallister Ian Department of Law Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 2600, Canberra, ACT, Australia aut Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 27/2(1992-09-01), 169-186 0303-8300 27:2<169 1992 27 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00300560 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00300560 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Makkai Toni Department of Law Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 2600, Canberra, ACT, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mcallister Ian Department of Law Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 2600, Canberra, ACT, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 27/2(1992-09-01), 169-186 0303-8300 27:2<169 1992 27 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer