Diversity in Survey Questions on the Same Topic : Techniques for Improving Comparability / by Tineke de Jonge, Ruut Veenhoven, Wim Kalmijn.
de Jonge, Tineke. author.; Veenhoven, Ruut. author.; Kalmijn, Wim. author.
2017
HM538
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Title Diversity in Survey Questions on the Same Topic : Techniques for Improving Comparability / by Tineke de Jonge, Ruut Veenhoven, Wim Kalmijn.
Author de Jonge, Tineke. author.
ISBN 9783319532615
3319532618
9783319532608
331953260X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53261-5
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xv, 202 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-53261-5 doi
Call Number HM538
Dewey Decimal Classification 300.72/3
Summary This book describes why conventional methods fall short to solve the comparability problem and introduces three successive innovations to overcome these shortcomings. Comparability of results from different surveys using different items for the same topic is greatly hampered by the differences in response scales used. This reduces our accumulation of knowledge and has challenged researchers in the field of survey research for long to develop appropriate methods to transform ratings on different scales to attain comparable results and to correct for effects of changes in measurements and other influencing factors. The three innovations described in this volume are applied to data on happiness and life satisfaction, show better comparability of the survey results concerning the perceptions and opinions of people over time and across nations and at an increased opportunity for meta-analysis on these results. .
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Added Author Veenhoven, Ruut. author.
Kalmijn, Wim. author.
Series Social indicators research series ; 68.
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Part 1: Comparing responses to different survey questions on the same topic
Problems and conventional solutions
chap. 1 Diversity in survey items and the comparability problem
Part 2: Innovation 1: The happiness scale interval study
chap. 2 The happiness scale interval study
chap. 3 Use of happiness scale interval studies in this book
chap. 4 Equivalence of rating scales using different keywords
chap. 5 'Very Happy' is not always equally happy
chap. 6 A change in response scale comes with another interpretation of the labels: the japanese case (pm)
Part 3: Innovation 2: The continuum approach
chap. 7 The continuum approach
Part 4 Innovation 3: The reference distribution method
chap. 8 The reference distribution method
chap. 9 Stability of the boundaries between response options for different countries
chap. 10 Analyses of differences in trends among the happy few and the unhappy few
chap. 11 Combining and pooling time series on life satisfaction in Japan and The Netherlands
chap. 12 Directions for further research
Appendices.

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