The Quality of Retrospective Data: An Examination of Long-Term Recall in a Developing Country
基于马来西亚家庭生活调查数据，分析长期回顾性报告的质量问题，总结已有发现并讨论对未来调查设计的启示。
The literature on reporting error provides insights into the quality of retrospective reports, particularly as it pertains to short-tern recall. Less is understood about the generalizability of these findings to longer-tern retrospective reports. We review studies analyzing the quality of retrospective reports in the Malaysian Family Life Surveys (MFLS), fielded in Peninsular Malaysia in 1976 and 1988, and conclude that many of the data quality problems found previously are present in the MFLS. We summarize this literature, place studies based on the MFLS within the context of the reporting error literature, and discuss implications for the design of future surveys.