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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors de Jonge, Tineke (Author), Veenhoven, Ruut (Author), Kalmijn, Wim (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesSocial Indicators Research Series, 68
Subjects
Social sciences.
Medical research.
Statistics.
Quality of life.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319532615
ISSN1387-6570 ;
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-53261-5
Physical DescriptionXV, 202 p. 47 illus., 45 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 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 few and 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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