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Is the Positive Effect of Education on Ethnic Tolerance a Method Artifact? A Multifactorial Survey Experiment on Social Desirability Bias in Sweden

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Adman, Per
Gschwind, Lutz

Abstract

Educated individuals are believed to be more tolerant towards ethnic minorities - a finding widely inferred from standard survey items. We propose a new approach that helps mitigate the risk of socially desirability bias (SDB), using a multifactorial survey experiment with name-based vignette dimens... view more

Educated individuals are believed to be more tolerant towards ethnic minorities - a finding widely inferred from standard survey items. We propose a new approach that helps mitigate the risk of socially desirability bias (SDB), using a multifactorial survey experiment with name-based vignette dimensions. The experiment is strategically inserted into a question about a social dilemma not related to ethnicity. By embedding our experiment into an established survey - the Swedish part of the European Values Survey - we show that individuals with a high level of education are more tolerant towards ethnic minorities, even under a lower risk of SDB. The study strengthens findings in prior research and supports the hypothesis that education can further ethnic tolerance.... view less

Keywords
EVS; Sweden; social desirability; level of education; tolerance; minority; survey

Classification
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods

Free Keywords
European Values Study 2017: Integrated Dataset (EVS 2017) (ZA7500)

Document language
English

Publication Year
2023

Page/Pages
p. 1-6

Journal
International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 35 (2023) 4

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edad032

ISSN
1471-6909

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0


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