The relation between answer behaviour and measurement error has been studied extensively. Answer behaviour may be considered undesirable, like answering ‘don’t know’ or ‘won’t tell’. It is not clear to what degree undesirable answer behaviour from the same respondents is present across different surveys. In this study, we investigated to what extent respondents show undesirable answer behaviours consistently over multiple surveys. First, we investigated to what extent the answer behaviours occurred in ten large general population surveys of CentERdata and Statistics Netherlands. Second, we explored the respondent variances and respondent-survey interaction variances to obtain an indication for respondent consistency for each answer behaviour. The results showed that respondents only occasionally give ‘don’t know’– and ‘won’t tell’-answers. An indication for respondent consistency was found for fast responding, slow responding, and ‘won’t tell’-answers in particular. We recommend follow-up research to investigate the relation between respondent characteristics and consistent answer behaviour.

回答行为与测量误差之间的关系已得到广泛研究。回答行为可能被认为是不受欢迎的，例如回答“不知道”或“不会告诉”。尚不清楚在不同的调查中，来自同一受访者的不良回答行为在多大程度上出现。在这项研究中，我们调查了受访者在多次调查中一致显示不良回答行为的程度。首先，我们调查了荷兰CentERdata和Statistics的十次大型总体调查中，回答行为在多大程度上发生了。其次，我们探索了受访者方差和受访者-调查互动方差，以获得每个回答行为受访者一致性的指标。结果表明，受访者仅偶尔给出“不知道”和“不告诉”答案。发现响应者一致性的指示是快速响应，响应慢以及特别是“不告诉”答案。我们建议进行后续研究，以调查受访者特征与一致回答行为之间的关系。