Kuk's Model Adjusted for Efficiency and Protection Using Two Non-Sensitive Questions Unrelated to the Characteristic of Interest

• Activity Number: 138
• Type: Contributed
• Date/Time: Monday, August 5, 2013 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
• Sponsor: Survey Research Methods Section
• Author(s): Stephen Andrew Sedory*+ and Shu-Ching Su and Sarjinder Singh
• Companies: Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Texas A&M University - Kingsville and Texas A&M University-Kingsville
• Keywords: Randomized response sampling ; , Protection of respondents ; Efficiency ; bias

Abstract

In this paper, we adjust the Kuk (1990) model for both protection and efficiency by making use of proportions of two non-sensitive characteristics which are unrelated to the main sensitive characteristic of interest. The situations where the proportions of the two non-sensitive characteristics in the population of interest are known and unknown are investigated. To avoid any confusion, we first briefly explain the Kuk's model. Then we discuss an adjustment in this model that makes use of two non-sensitive characteristics. We compare the adjusted model and Kuk's model through a simulation study from both the protection and efficiency points of views.