Social desirability bias in attitudes towards immigration

Intolerance to ethnic minority immigrants is often masked, which can lead to systematically under-reported opposition and over-reported tolerance. This experiment is a longitudinal application of a list experiment.

Households within PSUs were randomly allocated to either a control group or one of three experimental treatments.

Together with the item count lists outlined under the experiment concerning the measurement of sexual orientation Measuring sexual identity using direct and indirect questioning, the ordering of item counts was randomised across respondents.  The statements which respondents counted also had a randomised order across respondents.

At Wave 9, ½ of the participants from a given group were independently allocated to one of the other three groups, control or treatment, other than the one assigned at Wave 8.

Controlling variables:

ff_ictimw8

1          Control
2          Muslim countries item count
3          East European item count
4          Caribbean item count

ff_ictimw9

1          Control
2          Muslim countries item count
3          East European item count
4          Caribbean item count

The variables used for this experiment are in record h_indresp and i_indresp: ictimc1, ictimc1o, ictimt1, ictimt1o, ictimt2, ictimt2o, ictimt3, ictimt3o, ictimc2, ictimc3, ictimc4.