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Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2022

Ponderous, Proficient or Professional? Survey Experience and Smartphone Effects in Stated Preference Research

Bidragsytere:
  • Erlend Dancke Sandorf
  • Kristine Grimsrud og
  • Henrik Lindhjem

Tidsskrift

Environmental and Resource Economics
ISSN 0924-6460
e-ISSN 1573-1502
NVI-nivå 1

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2022
Publisert online: 2022
Volum: 81
Sider: 807 - 832
Open Access

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Scopus-ID: 2-s2.0-85126047220

Klassifisering

Vitenskapsdisipliner

Samfunnsøkonomi

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Tittel

Ponderous, Proficient or Professional? Survey Experience and Smartphone Effects in Stated Preference Research

Sammendrag

Stated preference surveys are increasingly conducted online using internet panel samples, where a fast-growing share of respondents answer on smartphones. These panel members range from novices to “professionals” in terms of previous survey experience. Little is known about the potential effects of smartphone responding and survey experience on the data quality of stated preference surveys. This paper uses a discrete choice experiment dataset on the Norwegian population’s willingness to pay to plant climate forests to explore how these two factors affect data quality. These data by type of response device, gathered using a probability-based internet panel, were combined with a unique dataset obtained from the survey company on respondents’ actual experience answering surveys on different types of devices. Our results show that differences in elicited preferences between smartphone and computer respondents are not caused by the device used, suggesting that initial concerns about smartphone responses may be exaggerated. Furthermore, more experience is associated with an increasing scale parameter (indicating lower error variance), but at a decreasing rate; and a higher propensity to choose the status quo (indicating possible simplifying strategies employed by respondents). Combined this suggest some optimal level of experience that is neither too high nor too low. We discuss the implications of our results for stated preference research and provide a few avenues for future research.

Bidragsytere

Erlend Dancke Sandorf

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Handelshøgskolen ved Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige universitet
Aktiv cristin-person

Kristine Grimsrud

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Forskningsavdelingen, Miljø-, ressurs- og innovasjonsøkonomi ved Statistisk sentralbyrå

Henrik Lindhjem

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved NINA Oslo ved Norsk institutt for naturforskning
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved MENON Economics
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