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Diversity in Survey Questions on the Same Topic: Techniques for Improving Comparability

By Tineke de Jonge , Ruut Veenhoven , Wim Kalmijn (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2017
ISBN
978-3-319-53260-8, 978-3-319-53261-5
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-53261-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3861715 bytes)
Series
Social Indicators Research Series 68
Edition
1
Pages
XV, 202\207
Time added
2017-04-19 23:42:51
and Law;Quality of Life Research;Statistics and CoBehavorial ScienceEducationMethodology of the Social Sciences;Statistics forPublic Policy

Description

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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