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Respondent errors

Term · Economic statistics · MLC-T-ECS-001647

The respondents failure to provide the correct answer to a survey question for any reason, such as poor comprehension of the question meaning, low motivation to answer the question, inability to retrieve the necessary information, or an unwillingness to answer the question truthfully.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ECS-001647
FieldEconomic statistics
ReferencesU.S. Census Bureau Glossary
Record as JSON
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  "id": "MLC-T-ECS-001647",
  "term": "Respondent errors",
  "field": "Economic statistics",
  "term_source": "Respondent Errors",
  "definition": "The respondents failure to provide the correct answer to a survey question for any reason, such as poor comprehension of the question meaning, low motivation to answer the question, inability to retrieve the necessary information, or an unwillingness to answer the question truthfully.",
  "references": [
    "U.S. Census Bureau Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/economic-statistics/respondent-errors/"
}

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