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The Reliability of Children's Survey Responses: The Impact of Cognitive Functioning on Respondent Behavior

@inproceedings{Fuchs2008TheRO,
  title={The Reliability of Children's Survey Responses: The Impact of Cognitive Functioning on Respondent Behavior},
  author={Marek Fuchs},
  year={2008}
}
Increasingly, children of all ages are becoming respondents in survey interviews. While juveniles are considered to be reliable respondents for many topics and survey settings it is unclear to what extend younger children provide reliable information in a face-to-face interview. In this paper we will report results from a study using video captures of 205 faceto-face interviews with children aged 8 through 14. The interviews have been coded using behavior codes on a question by question level… 
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