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Cross-cultural survey equivalence
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Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen -ZUMA-
Abstract
"This volume, the third in the ZUMA-Nachrichten-Spezial series on methodological issues in empirical social science research, is devoted to issues of cross-cultural methodology. The focus is on issues of equivalence, the key requirement in cross-national and cross-cultural comparative research. As t... view more
"This volume, the third in the ZUMA-Nachrichten-Spezial series on methodological issues in empirical social science research, is devoted to issues of cross-cultural methodology. The focus is on issues of equivalence, the key requirement in cross-national and cross-cultural comparative research. As the contributions indicate, equivalence is, however, better thought of in terms of equivalencies - in social science surveys and in other standardised instruments of measurement. Contributors come from different countries and continents and from widely differing research backgrounds, ranging from linguistics to survey research and its methodologies, to cultural anthropology and cross-cultural psychology." (author's abstract). Contents: Timothy P. Johnson: Approaches to equivalence in cross-cultural and cross-national survey research (1-40); Fons J.R. van de Vijver: Towards a theory of bias and equivalence (41-65); Willem E. Saris: The effects of measurement error in cross-cultural research (67-84); Janet A. Harkness, Alicia Schoua-Glusberg: Questionnaires in translation (87-126); Michael Braun, Jacqueline Scott: Multidimensional scaling and equivalence: is having a job the same as working? (129-144); Ingwer Borg: A facet-theoretical approach to item equivalency (145-158); Peter Ph. Mohler, Tom W. Smith, Janet A. Harkness: Respondents' ratings of expressions from response scales: a two-country, two-language investigation on equivalence and translation (159-184).... view less
Keywords
empirical social research; data collection method; intercultural factors; culture; survey research; methodology; research practice; comparative research; internationalization; international comparison
Classification
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Document language
English
Publication Year
1998
City
Mannheim
Page/Pages
184 p.
Series
ZUMA-Nachrichten Spezial, 3
ISBN
3-924220-13-1
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications