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Randomized response techniques for complex survey designs

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Singh et al. ([13]) pointed out that the Randomized response (RR) technique proposed by Moors ([9]) is not desirable because it fails to protect the confidentiality of the respondents and they provided two alternative strategies free from the above drawback but limited to SRSWOR sampling only. In this paper, generalization of one of the strategies is provided for complex survey designs, wider class of estimators and for quantitative characteristics. Relative efficiency of the modified strategy is tested through empirical investigations.

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  1. Department of Statistics, University of Botswana, Private Bag UB 00705, Gaborone, Botswana

    Raghunath Arnab & Georg Dorffner

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An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00362-006-0339-2.

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Arnab, R., Dorffner, G. Randomized response techniques for complex survey designs. Statistical Papers 48, 131–141 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00362-006-0319-6

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