Diversity in Survey Questions on the Same Topic

Diversity in Survey Questions on the Same Topic

Techniques for Improving Comparability

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

Springer International Publishing AG

07/2018

202

Mole

Inglês

9783319851075

15 a 20 dias

3802

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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 fewand 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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Research Synthesis;Scale Transformation;Subjective Well-being;Trend Analysis;Verbal rating Scales