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Making Better Use of Business Survey Data: Thoughts on Overcoming the Anchoring and Nested Data Problems in Interpreting Business Survey Results
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Edmund Malesky
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Making better use of business survey data:
Thoughts on overcoming the anchoring and nested data
problems in interpreting business survey results.
By Edmund Malesky
Ph.D. Candidate
Duke University## email not listed ##
(This is a work in progress. Please do not cite without permission).
Abstract: This paper is written specifically for a panel assessing the use of business survey data in gauging the quality of governments in transition countries. Such analysis can fall prey to two potential dangers. First, firms in different locations may understand a survey question in drastically different ways. Second, firm data is nested within higher level administrative units, making it difficult to ascertain whether firm level or provincial (state) level factors have the moreimportant impact. This paper is divided into four sections. First, I briefly describe my dissertation theory, paying special attention to how I employ the Vietnam Business Environment Survey (VBES) in my research. Secondly, I describe the methodology of the survey and some other limitations for its analysis. Third, I demonstrate how the anchoring problem inhibited useful comparisons across provinces and the changes I made for subsequent surveys (being administered this week by The Asia Foundation and Vietnam Chamber of Commerce) that correct for this problem. Fourth, I explore the problem of nested data and illustrate by way of my dissertation example why a hierarchical linear model (commonly used in psychology and public health) is most appropriate for making sense of business survey designs.
Paper submitted the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in
Philadelphia, PA, August 28-31, 2003.
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Edmund Malesky
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Making better use of business survey data:
Thoughts on overcoming the anchoring and nested data
problems in interpreting business survey results.
By Edmund Malesky
Ph.D. Candidate
Duke University
## email not listed ##
(This is a work in progress. Please do not cite without permission).
Abstract: This paper is written specifically for a panel assessing the use of business survey data
in gauging the quality of governments in transition countries. Such analysis can fall prey to two
potential dangers. First, firms in different locations may understand a survey question in
drastically different ways. Second, firm data is nested within higher level administrative units,
making it difficult to ascertain whether firm level or provincial (state) level factors have the more
important impact. This paper is divided into four sections. First, I briefly describe my
dissertation theory, paying special attention to how I employ the Vietnam Business Environment
Survey (VBES) in my research. Secondly, I describe the methodology of the survey and some
other limitations for its analysis. Third, I demonstrate how the anchoring problem inhibited
useful comparisons across provinces and the changes I made for subsequent surveys (being
administered this week by The Asia Foundation and Vietnam Chamber of Commerce) that
correct for this problem. Fourth, I explore the problem of nested data and illustrate by way of
my dissertation example why a hierarchical linear model (commonly used in psychology and
public health) is most appropriate for making sense of business survey designs.
Paper submitted the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in
Philadelphia, PA, August 28-31, 2003.
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