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Children as respondents in survey research: Cognitive development and response quality
Although children are no longer a neglected minority
in official statistics and surveys, methodological knowledge on
how to survey children is still scarce. Researchers have to
rely mainly on ad-hoc knowledge from such diverse fields as
child psychiatry and educational testing, or extrapolate from
methodological knowledge on how to survey adults. In this
article, we review the available literature on children as
respondents and present the first results of a secondary
analysis of the influence of cognitive development on response
quality. We end with recommendations for surveying childre