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List Experiment

The list experiment, also called the item count technique, is a survey design that measures the prevalence of a sensitive attitude or behavior without ever requiring any respondent to directly disclose it. Respondents are randomly split into two groups: a control group sees a list of innocuous items and reports only how many apply to them, while a treatment group sees the same list plus one sensitive item. Because respondents report only a count, no individual answer reveals their stance on the sensitive item, and the difference in average counts between the groups estimates the proportion holding the sensitive trait.

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List Experiment (Item Count Technique)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / political-science
  • Imai, K. (2011). Multivariate Regression Analysis for the Item Count Technique. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 106(494), 407–416. · DOI 10.1198/jasa.2011.ap10415
  • Blair, G., & Imai, K. (2012). Statistical Analysis of List Experiments. Political Analysis, 20(1), 47–77. · DOI 10.1093/pan/mpr048
  • Glynn, A. N. (2013). What Can We Learn with Statistical Truth Serum? Design and Analysis of the List Experiment. Public Opinion Quarterly, 77(S1), 159–172. · DOI 10.1093/poq/nfs070
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