Greater Eldoret Health and Development Survey (Round 2) 2005

Kenya, 2005

Markus Goldstein and Harsha Thirumurthy

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8B. What would be tempted to do (trp8b)

Data file: timerisk

Overview

Valid: 1530

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Start by explaining that the next set of questions are meant to learn something about your impatience, and temptation to consume some luxury item. Let us consider the case of vouchers to be used at a nice duka. Suppose that you win 10 vouchers that have a value of 500 KShs each. You can buy anything you want with the vouchers. The vouchers are available for immediate use starting today, and there is an absolute guarantee that they will be available whenever you request them within a two-year window. Once you request a voucher, you must use it within one day. You must request all the vouchers within a two-year period. The questions below concern how many of the vouchers you would ideally like to use in each year, how tempted you would be to depart from this ideal, and what you expect you would actually do in practice.

What would you be tempted to do? Which of the following best describes you?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	I would be strongly tempted to keep more vouchers for the second year than ideal	63	4.1%
2	I would be somewhat tempted to keep more vouchers for the second year than ideal	84	5.5%
3	I would have no temptation in either direction	1151	75.2%
4	I would be somewhat tempted to use more vouchers in the first year than ideal	152	9.9%
5	I would be strongly tempted to use more vouchers in the first year than ideal	78	5.1%
8		2	0.1%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Question post text

If answer is 3 > End.