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

• Main Authors: de Jonge, Tineke (Author), Veenhoven, Ruut (Author), Kalmijn, Wim (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Social Indicators Research Series, 68
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Medical research.; Statistics.; Quality of life.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319532615
• ISSN: 1387-6570 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-53261-5
• Physical Description: XV, 202 p. 47 illus., 45 illus. in color. online resource.

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 re...