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We describe a new method for asking questions involving recall in surveys, called Respondent-Generated Intervals (RGI). We ask respondents for lower and upper bounds for the true answer to a factual question, as well as their best guess. For example, “How many times did you visit your doctor last year?” Also, “What is the largest value the true value is likely to be, and what is the smallest value the true value is likely to be?” Bayesian and other estimators are proposed. We describe several empirical studies that have used, and are using the RGI protocol.
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Press, S.J., Tanur, J.M. (2003). The Respondent-Generated Intervals Approach to Sample Surveys: From Theory to Experiment. In: Yanai, H., Okada, A., Shigemasu, K., Kano, Y., Meulman, J.J. (eds) New Developments in Psychometrics. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-66996-8_6
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