Understanding Society: minimising selection biases in data collection using mobile apps

Publication type

Journal Article

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Publication date

December 1, 2023

Summary:

Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study has a programme of research and development that underpins innovations in data collection methods. One of our current focuses is on using mobile applications to collect additional data that supplement data collected in annual interviews. To date, we have used mobile apps to collect data on consumer expenditure, well-being, anthropometrics and cognition. In this paper, we review the potential barriers to data collection using mobile apps and experimental evidence collected with the Understanding Society Innovation Panel, on what can be done to reduce these barriers.

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Fiscal Studies

Volume and page numbers

Volume: 44 , p.361 -376

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5890.12351

ISSN

01435671

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Open Access

© 2023 The Authors. Fiscal Studies published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Institute for Fiscal Studies.

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


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