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There are situations when we need information on sensitive features/characteristics of the individuals in a population. Usual sampling techniques based on ‘direct’ questionnaire may not be fruitful and are likely to lead to ‘refusal’ or ‘untruthful’ reporting. To overcome such undesirable consequences, randomized response techniques [RRTs, in short] have been introduced and extensively used in real-life situations. We discuss some salient features of this technique.
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Mukherjee, S.P., Sinha, B.K., Chattopadhyay , A. (2018). Randomized Response Techniques. In: Statistical Methods in Social Science Research. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2146-7_2
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