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Multidimensional scaling and equivalence: is having a job the same as working?

Multidimensionale Skalierung und Äquivalenz: ist einen Job zu haben dasselbe wie arbeiten?
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This document is a part of the following document:
Cross-cultural survey equivalence

Braun, Michael
Scott, Jacqueline

Corporate Editor
Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen -ZUMA-

Abstract

"The question of functional equivalence in internationally comparative surveys is discussed from the viewpoint of secondary analysis. A number of data-analytical procedures - ranging from a comparison of means over establishing correlations with third variables in individual countries to Multidimens... view more

"The question of functional equivalence in internationally comparative surveys is discussed from the viewpoint of secondary analysis. A number of data-analytical procedures - ranging from a comparison of means over establishing correlations with third variables in individual countries to Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) - are discussed and used to check problems in functional equivalence in an item battery on gender roles. The data base consists of several national samples (Italian, German, American, British and Hungarian) of the 1988 International Social Survey Programme study on Family and Changing Gender Roles. It is concluded that (1) ex post checking of functional equivalence is useful and necessary because (2) the related problems might have less to do with translation than with ambiguities of the concepts and/or formulations used in source instruments and with differences in the social and economic realities in the respective countries, but that (3) even secondary-analytic strategies are as a rule not conclusive and should be supplemented with methodological experiments." (author's abstract)... view less

Keywords
research practice; empirical social research; international comparison; method; data; analysis; instruments; secondary analysis; gender role; indicator; multidimensional scaling

Classification
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods

Method
empirical; quantitative empirical

Collection Title
Cross-cultural survey equivalence

Editor
Harkness, Janet

Document language
English

Publication Year
1998

City
Mannheim

Page/Pages
p. 129-144

Series
ZUMA-Nachrichten Spezial, 3

ISBN
3-924220-13-1

Status
Published Version; reviewed

Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications


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