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Translating questionnaires for cross-national surveys: A description of a genre and its particularities based on the ISO 17100 categorization of translator competences

open access: yesTranslation and Interpreting : the International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research, 2018
Sound questionnaire translation is crucial for collecting equivalent data in cross-national surveys. The topic is widely discussed in fields in which translated questionnaires are used, such as in the social sciences or in cross-cultural psychology, but ...
Dorothée Behr
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Can we assess representativeness of cross-national surveys using the education variable?

open access: yesSurvey Research Methods, 2016
Achieving a representative sample is an important goal for every survey. High response rates are often referred to as an indicator of representativeness in survey methodology research.
Verena Ortmanns, Silke L. Schneider
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Item Comparability in Cross-National Surveys: Results From Asking Probing Questions in Cross-National Web Surveys About Attitudes Towards Civil Disobedience

open access: yesQuality and Quantity, 2014
This article focuses on assessing item comparability in cross-national surveys by asking probing questions in Web surveys. The “civil disobedience” item from the “rights in a democracy” scale of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) serves as a ...
Dorothee Bèhr   +2 more
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The Cross-National Epidemiology of Specific Phobia in the World Mental Health Surveys

open access: yesPsychological Medicine, 2017
Background Although specific phobia is highly prevalent, associated with impairment, and an important risk factor for the development of other mental disorders, cross-national epidemiological data are scarce, especially from low- and middle-income ...
Koen Demyttenaere   +2 more
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Cross-national and multilevel correlates of partner violence: an analysis of data from population-based surveys

open access: yesThe Lancet Global Health, 2015
Background: On average, intimate partner violence affects nearly one in three women worldwide within their lifetime. But the distribution of partner violence is highly uneven, with a prevalence of less than 4% in the past 12 months in many high-income ...
Dr. Lori L Heise, PhD   +1 more
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Sampling and Fieldwork Practices in Europe: Analysis of Methodological Documentation From 1,537 Surveys in Five Cross-National Projects, 1981-2017

open access: yesMethodology, 2020
This article addresses the comparability of sampling and fieldwork with an analysis of methodological data describing 1,537 national surveys from five major comparative cross-national survey projects in Europe carried out in the period from 1981 to 2017.
Piotr Jabkowski, Marta Kołczyńska
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Cross-National Surveys of Learning Achievement: How Robust are the Findings? [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Science Research Network, 2005
International surveys of learning achievement and functional literacy are increasingly common. We consider two aspects of the robustness of their results. First, we compare results from four surveys: TIMSS, PISA, PIRLS and IALS. This contrasts with the standard approach which is to analyse a single survey with no regard as to whether it agrees or not ...
Giorgina Brown   +3 more
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The Political Parties Crosswalk for mapping party codes in cross-national surveys to Party Facts IDs

open access: yesPolitical Research Exchange, 2022
The Political Parties Crosswalk (PPC) maps party codes used in questions about party preferences in European cross-national public opinion surveys to Party Facts IDs, which are commonly used identifiers of parties in political science datasets.
Marta Kołczyńska, Przemek Powałko
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Age-of-onset and cumulative risk of mental disorders: A cross-national analysis of population surveys data based on 156,331 respondents from 29 countries

open access: yesLancet psychiatry, 2023
Background: Information on frequency and timing of mental disorder onsets across the lifespan is of fundamental importance for public health planning. Broad-based cross-national estimates of this sort from coordinated general population surveys were last
John J. McGrath   +68 more
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Focus Groups as a Questionnaire Pretest for Surveys in Cross-Cultural and Cross-National Comparative Research

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics, 2021
As a research method, focus groups have methodological advantages for understanding the views and behavior of group members or for understanding the social system as a whole, since it covers the interaction between people, groups, and the interpersonal ...
Dmitry Sergeevich Grigoryev
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