00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.847606 CaOODSP 20221107153459 cr ||||||||||| 171123s2017 onc ob f000 0 eng d CaOODSP eng eng fre n-cn--- FB3-5/2017-43E-PDF Chen, Heng, 1981- The mode is the message [electronic resource] : using predata as exclusion restrictions to evaluate survey design / by Heng Chen, Geoffrey Dunbar and Q. Rallye Shen. Using predata as exclusion restrictions to evaluate survey design [Ottawa] : Bank of Canada, 2017. ii, 18 p. Bank of Canada staff working paper, 1701-9397 ; 2017-43 "October 2017." Includes bibliographical references. “This paper addresses the following question: Do individuals respond differently to the same question when presented with different survey modes (offline vs. online)? We find that for the Bank of Canada's 2013 Methods-of-Payment Survey, there are mode effects for recall questions and for questions eliciting subjective opinions, e.g., whether cash payment method is easy to use. We find no differences for factual questions where the respondent could easily verify the information requested, e.g., the respondent's cash balance. Overall, our empirical results suggest caution when aggregating survey responses for mixed-mode surveys. In addition, our paper contributes to the statistical methods by applying the predata (information available prior to the specific survey design) to correct for both non-response and sampling bias. Such predata are easy and cheap to obtain from the survey marketing company, and provide enough variation to identify both response choice and sampling strategy, while not confounding the answers of the questionnaire"--Non-technical summary, p. [1]. Includes abstract in French. gccst Surveys gccst Methodology gccst Statistical analysis Dunbar, Geoffrey R. Shen, Q. Rallye. Bank of Canada. Staff working paper (Bank of Canada) 1701-9397 ; 2017-43 (CaOODSP)9.806221 PDF 475 KB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/banque-bank-canada/FB3-5-2017-43-eng.pdf