Problems and pitfalls of retrospective survey questions in COVID-19 studies
- This paper examines and discusses the biases and pitfalls of retrospective survey questions that are currently being used in many medical, epidemiological, and sociological studies on the COVID-19 pandemic. By analyzing the consistency of answers to retrospective questions provided by respondents who participated in the first two waves of a survey on the social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, we illustrate the insights generated by a large body of survey research on the use of retrospective questions and recall accuracy.
| Author details: | Lena HippORCiDGND, Mareike BünningORCiDGND, Stefan Munnes, Armin Sauermann |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2020.v14i2.7741 |
| ISSN: | 1864-3361 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Survey research methods |
| Publisher: | European Survey Research Association |
| Place of publishing: | Konstanz |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2020/06/02 |
| Publication year: | 2020 |
| Release date: | 2023/02/02 |
| Tag: | COVID-19; recall accuracy; retrospective questions |
| Volume: | 14 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Number of pages: | 6 |
| First page: | 109 |
| Last Page: | 113 |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
| License (German): |  CC-BY-NC - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell 4.0 International |
