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dc.contributor.authorAnsolabehere, Stephen Daniel
dc.contributor.authorMeredith, M.
dc.contributor.authorSnowberg, E.
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-08T14:50:38Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifierQuick submit: 2014-02-14T14:33:56-05:00
dc.identifier.citationAnsolabehere, S., M. Meredith, and E. Snowberg. 2013. “Asking About Numbers: Why and How.” Political Analysis 21 (1) (January 1): 48–69. doi:10.1093/pan/mps031.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1047-1987en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33723558
dc.description.abstractSurvey questions about quantities offer a number of advantages over more common qualitative questions. However, concerns about survey respondents’ abilities to accurately report numbers have limited the use of quantitative questions. This article shows quantitative questions are feasible and useful for the study of economic voting. First, survey respondents are capable of accurately assessing familiar economic quantities, such as the price of gas. Second, careful question design—in particular providing respondents with benchmark quantities—can reduce measurement error due to respondents not understanding the scale on which more complex quantities, such as the unemployment rate, are measured. Third, combining quantitative and qualitative questions sheds light on where partisan bias enters economic assessments: in perceiving, judging, or reporting economic quantities.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipGovernmenten_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Press (OUP)en_US
dc.relation.isversionof10.1093/pan/mps031en_US
dc.relation.isversionofdoi:10.1093/pan/mps031en_US
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dc.titleAsking About Numbers: Why and Howen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.date.updated2014-02-14T19:35:32Z
dc.description.versionVersion of Recorden_US
dc.rights.holderStephen Ansolabehere
dc.relation.journalPolitical Analysisen_US
dash.depositing.authorAnsolabehere, Stephen Daniel
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dc.identifier.doi10.1093/pan/mps031*
dash.contributor.affiliatedAnsolabehere, Stephen


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