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Consumers’ Recording Behaviour in Payment Diaries – Empirical Evidence from Germany

In this paper we analyse whether the recording behaviour of consumers keeping a payment diary for several days changes over the diary period. Using data from a large study on the payment behaviour of German consumers we find that individuals tend to report a higher number of transactions on the first day of the diary period than on subsequent days. Contrary to existing literature we find that the number of small cash payments recorded does not decrease during the one-week diary period. Our findings indicate that short diaries may be enough to reflect adequately the payment behaviour of consumers. Longer diaries do not seem to suffer from serious biases and are especially helpful when it comes to analysing subgroups of payment types or rare events.

Sprache
Englisch
Umfang
Seite(n): 16
ISSN
2296-4754
Anmerkungen
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Erschienen in
Survey Methods: Insights from the Field

Thema
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften
Wirtschaftssoziologie
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Konsumverhalten
Befragung
Zahlungsmoral
Datenqualität
Deutsche Bundesbank

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Schmidt, Tobias
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Deutschland
(wann)
2014

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-405594
Rechteinformation
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
Letzte Aktualisierung
21.06.2024, 16:27 MESZ

Objekttyp

  • Zeitschriftenartikel

Beteiligte

  • Schmidt, Tobias

Entstanden

  • 2014

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