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Diversity in Survey Questions on the Same Topic

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 68)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-53261-5

ISBN: 978-3-319-53260-8

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Mar 1, 2017

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Diversity in Survey Items and the Comparability Problem

de Jonge, Tineke; Veenhoven, Ruut; Kalmijn, Wim

Pages: 3 –16

[This chapter starts with an introduction to the incomparability problem and an overview of the diversity in survey items. This is followed by a description of the problem of incomparability of the time series on life satisfaction in the USA, Japan and The Netherlands to illustrate the problem....
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The Happiness Scale Interval Study

de Jonge, Tineke; Veenhoven, Ruut; Kalmijn, Wim

Pages: 19 –26

[The Happiness Scale Interval Study, is designed to be used for survey questions on happiness using verbal response options. It is used to determine what degrees of happiness are denoted by such terms when used in particular questions and different languages. The method uses a web-based Scale...
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Use of Happiness Scale Interval Studies in This Book

de Jonge, Tineke; Veenhoven, Ruut; Kalmijn, Wim

Pages: 27 –30

[Results from the Happiness Scale Interval Studies (HSIS) can be used to address a number of questions. A selection of these questions is used for explanatory purposed in this book. We use results from HSIS-studies conducted in The USA, The Netherlands and Spain. An overview of the recruitment...
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Equivalence of Rating Scales Using Different Keywords

de Jonge, Tineke; Veenhoven, Ruut; Kalmijn, Wim

Pages: 31 –46

[Research has shown that keywords make a difference, for instance that questions using the keyword ‘happiness’ elicit somewhat more positive responses than otherwise similar questions on ‘life satisfaction’. This difference is typically attributed to the topic addressed in the lead question, but...
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‘Very Happy’ Is Not Always Equally Happy

de Jonge, Tineke; Veenhoven, Ruut; Kalmijn, Wim

Pages: 47 –60

[The main aim of the Happiness Scale Interval Study (HSIS) was to improve the comparison of happiness across nations. To do this it is necessary to understand the difference in interpretation of the response options of the same item in different languages and to determine whether differences in...
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The Labeling of Anchor Points and the Occurrence of Zero-Width Intervals

de Jonge, Tineke; Veenhoven, Ruut; Kalmijn, Wim

Pages: 61 –67

[The labeling of the anchor points of a response scale may tempt the judges participating in scale intervals studies to assign zero-width intervals to these points by choosing the upper and lower bound equal to an extreme of the continuum. The phenomenon of assigning zero-width intervals occurs...
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The Continuum Approach

de Jonge, Tineke; Veenhoven, Ruut; Kalmijn, Wim

Pages: 71 –81

[The comparability problem is partly due to the variety of response scales that has developed over time in the field of survey research and is caused by the use of discrete scales. When conventional scale transformation methods are used or the Scale Interval Method to transform a discrete primary...
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The Reference Distribution Method

de Jonge, Tineke; Veenhoven, Ruut; Kalmijn, Wim

Pages: 85 –96

[With the Reference Distribution Method an attempt is made to deal with the fact that, for a given year and a given population, one would expect the distribution means after scale transformation for similar questions about a certain topic asked in different representative surveys to be...
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Stability of the Boundaries Between Response Options for Different Countries

de Jonge, Tineke; Veenhoven, Ruut; Kalmijn, Wim

Pages: 97 –114

[When the Continuum Approach is applied to a time series of a survey which has remained unchanged over time, the boundaries between the response options are assumed to remain unchanged over time. We inspect whether this assumption is realistic using time series of survey items taken from the...
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Analysis of Differences in Trends Among the Satisfied Few and the Dissatisfied Few

de Jonge, Tineke; Veenhoven, Ruut; Kalmijn, Wim

Pages: 115 –121

[Scholars often want to know what the interrelations of the means in subgroups of the population are, for example from the perspective of inequality or marginalization. When using a discrete response scale with a limited number of response options it will be a difficult task to derive this...

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