Limitations of the random response technique and a call to implement the ballot box method for estimating recreational angler compliance using surveys:
- Bova, Christopher S, Aswani, Shankar, Farthing, Matthew W, Potts, Warren M
- Authors: Bova, Christopher S , Aswani, Shankar , Farthing, Matthew W , Potts, Warren M
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145359 , vital:38431 , DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2018.06.017
- Description: Accurate estimation of the levels of non-compliance to fishing regulations is crucial in ensuring that long term sustainability goals of fisheries are met. When requesting information regarding sensitive behaviour, such as an angler’s non-compliance to regulations through direct questioning methods (DQM), their responses can be influenced by social desirability bias (SDB). Literature in human dimensions research on methods for controlling this bias is limited. There has been an emerging prevalence in the use of the random response technique (RRT), which is a method aimed at reducing SDB in questions regarding sensitive behaviour, although it has never been validated against observed data in an environmental resource use context. An alternative to the RRT, the use of a ballot box method (BBM) has been successfully implemented to reduce SDB in contingent valuation studies and is introduced in this paper as a method for reducing SDB in face-to-face survey responses regarding sensitive behaviour.
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- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: Bova, Christopher S , Aswani, Shankar , Farthing, Matthew W , Potts, Warren M
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145359 , vital:38431 , DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2018.06.017
- Description: Accurate estimation of the levels of non-compliance to fishing regulations is crucial in ensuring that long term sustainability goals of fisheries are met. When requesting information regarding sensitive behaviour, such as an angler’s non-compliance to regulations through direct questioning methods (DQM), their responses can be influenced by social desirability bias (SDB). Literature in human dimensions research on methods for controlling this bias is limited. There has been an emerging prevalence in the use of the random response technique (RRT), which is a method aimed at reducing SDB in questions regarding sensitive behaviour, although it has never been validated against observed data in an environmental resource use context. An alternative to the RRT, the use of a ballot box method (BBM) has been successfully implemented to reduce SDB in contingent valuation studies and is introduced in this paper as a method for reducing SDB in face-to-face survey responses regarding sensitive behaviour.
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- Date Issued: 2018
Local perceptions of environmental changes in fishing communities of southwest Madagascar:
- Lemahieu, Anne, Scott, Lucy E P, Malherbe, Willem, Mahatante, Paubert T, Randrianarimanana, José V, Aswani, Shankar
- Authors: Lemahieu, Anne , Scott, Lucy E P , Malherbe, Willem , Mahatante, Paubert T , Randrianarimanana, José V , Aswani, Shankar
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145370 , vital:38432 , DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.06.012
- Description: Southwest Madagascar is a region that is significantly impacted upon by climate change. As in a lot of developing countries, the livelihoods of many communities in this region are dependent on fishing. This makes these communities particularly vulnerable to climate-related changes. We conducted a survey in two coastal fishing communities in the Toliara Province, Ambola and Ambotsibotsike. Using a free listing exercise, semi-structured interviews and focus group methods, we documented local perceptions of environmental changes and responses to changes. Results were compared, taking into account the differences in the degree of remoteness, market exposure and religiosity. Time periods that respondents reported as having had a high degree of change were compared to time periods of historical records of cyclones occurring in Toliara Province.
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- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: Lemahieu, Anne , Scott, Lucy E P , Malherbe, Willem , Mahatante, Paubert T , Randrianarimanana, José V , Aswani, Shankar
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145370 , vital:38432 , DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.06.012
- Description: Southwest Madagascar is a region that is significantly impacted upon by climate change. As in a lot of developing countries, the livelihoods of many communities in this region are dependent on fishing. This makes these communities particularly vulnerable to climate-related changes. We conducted a survey in two coastal fishing communities in the Toliara Province, Ambola and Ambotsibotsike. Using a free listing exercise, semi-structured interviews and focus group methods, we documented local perceptions of environmental changes and responses to changes. Results were compared, taking into account the differences in the degree of remoteness, market exposure and religiosity. Time periods that respondents reported as having had a high degree of change were compared to time periods of historical records of cyclones occurring in Toliara Province.
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- Date Issued: 2018
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