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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?
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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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
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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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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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]
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
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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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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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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