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ISSN 1864-6956 · GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim · 48 artikel di indeks
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Education in OECD’s PIAAC Study: How Well do Different Harmonized Measures Predict Skills?
The comparable measurement of educational attainment is a challenge for all comparative surveys and cross-national data analyses. While education is an important predictor or control variable in many research contexts, it is particularly important when studying education and education-related…
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Surpassing Simple Aggregation: Advanced Strategies for Analyzing Contextual-Level Outcomes in Multilevel Models
This article introduces two advanced analytical strategies for analyzing contextual-level outcomes in multilevel models: the multilevel SEM and the two-step approach. Since these strategies are seldom used in comparative survey research, we first discuss their methodological and statistical…
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Modeling Multiple-country Repeated Cross-sections. A Societal Growth Curve Model for Studying the Effect of the Economic Crisis on Perceived Ethnic Threat
While multiple-country repeated cross-sectional datasets are increasingly available, few cross-national studies fully exploit the richness of such data. This paper contributes to the practical knowledge on statistical analysis of cross-national time series data. For that purpose, we present a novel…
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Testing Measurement Invariance for a Second-Order Factor. A Cross-National Test of the Alienation Scale
Multiple group confirmatory factor analysis has become the most common technique for assessing measurement invariance. However, higher-order factor modeling is less frequently discussed in this context. In particular, the literature provides only very general guidelines for testing measurement…
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Testing the Measurement Invariance of Political Trust across the Globe. A Multiple Group Confirmatory Factor Analysis
Today, comparative social scientists have ample survey data to test the generalizability of theories related to political trust. Unless its measurement invariance has been established, they run the risk of drawing invalid conclusions though. Based on different sets of items and dimensional models…
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Demonstrating How to Best Examine Group-based Segregation: A Statistical and Conceptual Multilevel Approach
Segregation between ethnic or sociodemographic groups represents a longstanding key independent and dependent variable for the social sciences. However, researchers have only recently begun to take advantage of inferential rather than descriptive statistical techniques in order to assess various…
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Blaming the Young Misses the Point: Re-assessing Young People’s Political Participation over Time Using the ‘Identity-equivalence Procedure’
One of the central and constantly recurring features of youth participation studies is the depiction of young people and adolescents as the future of democratic politics. According to previous research, however, young people exhibit generally lower levels of political participation than adults and…
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Effects of Rating Scale Direction under the Condition of Different Reading Direction
Because response scales serve as orientation for respondents when mapping their answers to response categories, it can be expected that the decremental (from positive to negative) or incremental (from negative to positive) order of a response scale provides information that influences response…
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Exploring Language Effects in Crosscultural Survey Research: Does the Language of Administration Affect Answers About Politics?
We study if the language of administration of a survey has an effect on the answers of bilingual respondents to questions measuring political dimensions. This is done in two steps. In the first we test whether the measurement instruments are equivalent for the same individual in two languages…
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Using Alignment Optimization to Test the Measurement Invariance of Gender Role Attitudes in 59 Countries
Several repeated cross-national surveys include measurements of attitudes toward gender roles to investigate individuals’ beliefs regarding the appropriateness of men and women’s roles in a particular context. When used to compare attitudes across countries, these measurements reveal critical…
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Simultaneous Feedback Models with Macro-Comparative Cross-Sectional Data
Social scientists often work with theories of reciprocal causality. Sometimes theories suggest that reciprocal causes work simultaneously, or work on a time-scale small enough to make them appear simultaneous. Researchers may employ simultaneous feedback models to investigate such theories…
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Collecting Event History Data with a Panel Survey: Combining an Electronic Event History Calendar and Dependent Interviewing
Many panel surveys collect event history data on events occurring between two waves. This is usually done by asking lists of questions on the various changes that took place between interviews (Q-Lists). Recently, some panel surveys introduced a different data collection method: the Event History…
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The Wave 6 NEPS Adult Study Incentive Experiment
In wave 6 of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) adult starting cohort, an incentive experiment was conducted that randomly switched respondent cash incentives from promised to (partly) prepaid for half of the eligible sample. This research note examines the effects that this change in…
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Temporal Perspectives of Nonresponse During a Survey Design Phase
Invariably, full response is not achieved with a single survey solicitation, and so a sequence of follow-up attempts typically ensues in an effort to mitigate the potentially detrimental effects of nonresponse. Rather than permitting the follow-up campaign to continue indefinitely or until some…
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Some Methodological Uses of Responses to Open Questions and Other Verbatim Comments in Quantitative Surveys
The use of open-ended questions in survey research has a very long history. In this paper, building on the work of Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Howard Schuman, we review the methodological uses of open-ended questions and verbatim responses in surveys. We draw on prior research, our own and that of…
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How Interviewer Effects Differ in Real and Falsified Survey Data: Using Multilevel Analysis to Identify Interviewer Falsifications
In face-to-face interviews, interviewers can have an important positive influence on the quality of survey data, but they can also introduce interviewer effects. What is even more problematic is that interviewers may decide to falsify all or parts of interviews. The question that the present…
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Determinants of Wealth Fluctuation: Changes in Hard-To-Measure Economic Variables in a Panel Study
Measuring fluctuation in families’ economic conditions is the raison d’être of household panel studies. Accordingly, a particularly challenging critique is that extreme fluctuation in measured economic characteristics might indicate compounding measurement error rather than actual changes in…
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Can Interviewer Observations of the Interview Predict Future Response?
Interviewers made four observations related to future participation, respondent cooperation, enjoyment and whether the respondent found the questions difficult, for a large sample of face-to-face interviews at wave four of the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). The focus of the paper is on…
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Analyzing Survey Characteristics, Participation, and Evaluation Across 186 Surveys in an Online Opt-In Panel in Spain
Survey designers often ask about the best length for their questionnaires and the best format for their questions. Much research has already addressed these issues. However, the answers to these questions may vary with the population of interest, the mode of data collection used, and other factors…
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Gender of Interviewer Effects in a Multi-topic Centralized CATI Panel Survey
This paper is motivated by two recent articles which show that numerous studies which analyzed gender of interviewer effects did not take interviewer nonresponse selection effects into account. For example, interviewers may be more successful at recruiting respondents with characteristics similar…