Informational Ambiguity and Survey Bias: Husbands' and Wives' Reports on Their Contribution to Their Families

Autor/in	Tao, Hung-Lin
Titel	Informational Ambiguity and Survey Bias: Husbands' and Wives' Reports on Their Contribution to Their Families
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 111 (2013) 3, S.713-724 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-012-0029-5
Schlagwörter	Housework; Spouses; Interviews; Salaries; Psychological Patterns; Models; Social Indicators; Time Management; Family (Sociological Unit) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hausarbeit; Ehepartner; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Entlohnung; Gehalt; Analogiemodell; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Zeitmanagement; Familie
Abstract	The present study uses panel data models to control unobserved characteristics and to investigate how the presence of spouses in interviews influences reports regarding housework and earnings contributions. Both husbands and wives relatively overreport their housework contributions but do not overreport their earnings contributions. The amount of time spent doing housework lacks a precise measure and involves more subjective estimates than earnings reports. It is argued that the ambiguity of the housework contribution mitigates the guilt felt by overreporting the housework contribution. In addition, without controlling for unobserved characteristics, OLS models overstate the influence of the presence of spouses in the interviews. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10