Most information about the incomes of people in Britain today, such as provided by official
statistics, tells us how much inequality there is or how many poor people there are in a given …

We measure trust and trustworthiness in British society with a newly designed experiment
using real monetary rewards and a sample of the British population. The study also asks the …

We provide direct evidence that people with strong family ties have a lower level of trust in
strangers than people with weak family ties, and argue that this association is causal. We …

We analyse patterns of consent and consent bias in the context of a large general
household survey, the 'Improving survey measurement of income and employment'survey …

Linking survey data with administrative records is becoming more common in the social
sciences in recent years. Regulatory frameworks require the respondent's consent to this …

Panel surveys increasingly feed forward substantive information from previous waves of
data collection, to tailor the wording or routing of questions to the respondent's situation or to …

We assess measurement error in panel survey reports of social security benefit receipt,
drawing on a unique validation study. Our aims are threefold. First, we quantify the incidence …

This study explores the relation between household socioeconomic status (SES) and
participation in urban and periurban agriculture (UPA) in three West African cities. We used …

Dependent interviewing has been introduced by a number of panel surveys as a means of
reducing measurement error, in particular the typically observed concentration of transitions …

Measurement error in social and economic survey data has been a subject of concern and
study for a long time (see for example Bound, Brown, & Mathiowetz, 2001; Biemer, Groves …