ERRORS ARISING FROM INCORRECT AND INCOMPLETE INFORMATION IN SURVEYS OF NON-HOME ACTIVITY PATTERNS

The paper is concerned with the problem of non-sampling errors in written mail-back household travel surveys arising from refusals of information to specific questions and incorrect entries by the respondents. The paper describes empirical results of a research project for which the entries of a written household survey were re-examined by interviews. By this experiment the frequency of incorrect and incomplete entries about personal and trip characteristics could be estimated. Emphasis is put on the problem of non-reported trips. Based on statistical tests of relationships between non-reporting on the one hand and travel and personal characteristics of the respondents on the other, correction procedures for re-estimating average numbers of trips can be developed.(a) for the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 286978.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • New Survey Methods in Transport. Proceedings of 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, NEW SOUTH WALES, 1983.
• Corporate Authors:

  VNU Science Pres BV

  P.O. Box 2073
  Utrecht,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • Wermuth, M
• Publication Date: 1985

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 333-347
• Serial:
  • Publication of: VNU SCIENCE PRESS
  • Publisher: VNU Science Pres BV

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accuracy; Age; Conferences; Data collection; Education; Errors; Forecasting; Households; Human factors; Interviewing; Jobs; Surveys; Traffic surveys; Transportation modes; Transportation planning; Travel time; Trip length; Work trips
• Geographic Terms: Germany
• ITRD Terms: 1757: Age; 8525: Conference; 8623: Data acquisition; 2284: Education; 6440: Error; 132: Forecast; 8125: Germany; 309: Household; 9147: Interview; 697: Journey time; 621: Journey to work; 2271: Occupation; 676: Traffic survey; 1145: Transport mode
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00455364
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 31 1986 12:00AM