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JSM 2002 Abstract #300634
Activity Number: 302
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Social Statistics Section*
Abstract - #300634
Title: I Am Disabled On and Off! A Study of Proxy Response in a Disability Survey
Author(s): Sunghee Lee*+
Affiliation(s): University of Maryland, College Park
Address: 1218 LeFrak, College Park, Maryland, 20742, USA
Keywords: Disability ; Proxy Response ; Proxy Respondent
Abstract:

In a two-wave disability survey, I find differences in reports and response behavior between self- and proxy respondents. People reveal their own disability (self-response) at a higher rate than other person's disability (proxy response). However, self-respondents provide less consistent answers than proxies. This suggests that self- and proxy respondents may have different amounts and types of information and may not rely on the same information when judging the disability of the same person. When separating the proxy respondents according to their "social relationship" to the target subjects, spouse proxies are found to be most consistent in reporting disability; other types of proxies report less consistently than self-respondents. Memory capacity of a proxy, and duration of relationship between a target and a proxy, affect the reporting consistency. These findings imply that categorizing all respondents other than the target person as a proxy-respondent group may not be the right approach to examining the effect of the respondent rule because there seems to be an unignorable effect of social relationship between a proxy and the target person on the proxy-response behavior.


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