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A Tale of Two Surveys: Comparing the Outcomes of an In-Person and Web-Based Survey of Mental Health in the West Bank and Gaza

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dc.contributor.authorFinn, Arden J.
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Jessica
dc.contributor.authorAghajanian, Alia
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-12T18:26:49Z
dc.date.available2023-07-12T18:26:49Z
dc.date.issued2023-07-12
dc.description.abstractInternet surveys may never replace in-person surveys as a gold standard, but they remain important tools for rapid, remote, and low-cost data collection. The West Bank and Gaza Poverty and Equity team had a unique opportunity to compare a Facebook survey with an in-person survey covering conflict exposure and potentially associated socioeconomic mental health outcomes over a similar time period. It is reasonable to expect that the estimates from internet surveys and in-person surveys would differ. In this case, the Facebook survey estimates more severe outcomes (e.g., higher exposure to conflict and worse mental health) than its in-person counterpart for most topics and populations. Multiple mechanisms may have contributed to this difference in estimates, including overrepresentation in the Facebook sample of respondents who were interested in the survey topics, reduced sensitivity bias in the context of a self-administered online questionnaire, and reporting more severe outcomes than personally experienced to encourage resource flows to perceived needs. Estimated outcomes tend to be more similar for people in Gaza, possibly because of greater homogeneity in socioeconomic experiences and exposure to violent conflict and broader interest in a survey on the effects of the May 2021 violence. The main results are robust to different ways of controlling for observable characteristics; neither alternative weights nor sample restrictions erase the systematic differences between the surveys.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099749306212335845/IDU06ae9560f0dd1004b440b9c90c0ee1da42011
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-10494
dc.identifier.urihttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/39987
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Papers; 10494
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectSURVEY METHODOLOGY
dc.subjectINTERNET SURVEY
dc.subjectSELECTION BIAS
dc.subjectSENSITIVITY BIAS
dc.subjectCONFLICT
dc.subjectMENTAL HEALTH
dc.subjectCONFLICT TRAUMA
dc.titleA Tale of Two Surveysen
dc.title.subtitleComparing the Outcomes of an In-Person and Web-Based Survey of Mental Health in the West Bank and Gazaen
dc.typeWorking Paper
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.crossref.titleA Tale of Two Surveys: Comparing the Outcomes of an In-Person and Web-Based Survey of Mental Health in the West Bank and Gaza
okr.date.disclosure2023-06-21
okr.date.lastmodified2023-06-21T00:00:00Zen
okr.doctypePolicy Research Working Paper
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099749306212335845/IDU06ae9560f0dd1004b440b9c90c0ee1da42011
okr.guid099749306212335845
okr.identifier.docmidIDU-6ae9560f-dd10-4b44-b9c9-c0ee1da42011
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-10494
okr.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-10494
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum34099220
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum34099220
okr.identifier.reportWPS10494
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099749306212335845/pdf/IDU06ae9560f0dd1004b440b9c90c0ee1da42011.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeMiddle East and North Africa
okr.region.countryWest Bank and Gaza
okr.sectorCentral Government (Central Agencies)
okr.themeData production, accessibility and use,Gender,Human Development and Gender,Data Development and Capacity Building,Economic Policy,Rural Development,Fiscal Policy,Institutional strengthening and capacity building,Public Sector Management,Fiscal sustainability,Urban and Rural Development,Geospatial Services
okr.topicSocial Development::Psychology
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Mental Health
okr.topicSocial Development::Post Conflict Reintegration
okr.unitEFI-MNA-POV-Poverty and Equity (EMNPV)
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