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Increase in the quality of methodological documentation of cross-national pan-European multi-wave surveys over the last 40 years - a research note
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Abstract Social research methodologists have postulated that the transparency of survey procedures and data processing is mandatory for assessing the Total Survey Error. Recent analyses of data from cross-national surveys have demonstrated an increase in the quality of documentation reports over time and sig... view more
Social research methodologists have postulated that the transparency of survey procedures and data processing is mandatory for assessing the Total Survey Error. Recent analyses of data from cross-national surveys have demonstrated an increase in the quality of documentation reports over time and significant differences in documentation quality between the projects. This research note replicates previous results with an extended set of documentation-related quality indicators describing the degree of completeness of information at the consecutive steps of the survey cycle. It also extends earlier findings by indicating no significant relationship between the quality of the survey documentation and the quality of the survey itself. We analysed a meta-data set of survey characteristics, studying all available up-to-date methodological reports of 1,145 national surveys from four large-scale multi-wave projects: the European Quality of Life Survey (2003-2016), European Social Survey (2002-2018), European Values Study (1981-2017), and International Social Survey Programme (1985-2018).... view less
Keywords
EVS; ISSP; survey; data collection method; data quality; documentation
Classification
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Free Keywords
survey documentation; cross-national surveys; total survey error; EVS1981-2017; ISSP1985-2018
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Page/Pages
p. 817-824
Journal
International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 26 (2023) 6
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2022.2097394
ISSN
1464-5300
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0