Sensitive Survey Questions: Measuring Attitudes Regarding Female Genital Cutting Through a List Experiment
在埃塞俄比亚使用列表实验测量对女性生殖器切割的真实支持度，发现直接提问低估了约10个百分点的支持率，且偏差在未受教育女性和受NGO干预的女性中可能更大。
Abstract Potential bias in survey responses is higher if sensitive outcomes are measured. This study analyses attitudes towards female genital cutting (FGC) in Ethiopia. A list experiment is designed to elicit truthful answers about FGC support and compares these outcomes with the answers given to a direct question. Our results confirm that the average bias is substantial as answers to direct questions underestimate the FGC support by about 10 percentage points. Moreover, our results provide suggestive but not statistically significant evidence that this bias is more pronounced among uneducated women and women targeted by an NGO intervention (not randomly assigned).