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Reporting Bias in Sexual Behavior Surveys

Research on methods to reduce reporting bias in sexual behavior surveys, including data-collection tactics, statistical corrections, and external validation.

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Feb 6, 2026

How do survey question wording and sampling methods change reported rates of anal sex and enjoyment among women?

Reported rates of anal intercourse and of women saying they enjoy it shift substantially with how surveys are asked and who is sampled: usually yield higher reports than face‑to‑face interviews, and t...

Jan 11, 2026

What methods do researchers use to adjust for reporting bias in sexual behavior surveys (e.g., topcoding, sensitivity analysis, latent-variable models)?

Researchers confronting reporting bias in sexual behavior surveys deploy a mix of data-collection tactics, post-hoc statistical corrections, and external validation; methods range from private compute...