Contributors | |
Preface | |
Setting The Stage | |
Comparative Survey Methodology | |
Equivalence, Comparability, and Methodological Progress | |
Questionnaire Development | |
Designing Questionnaires for Multipopulation Research | |
Creating Questions and Protocols for an International Study of Ideas About Development and Family Life | |
Managing the Cognitive Pretesting of Multilingual Survey Instruments: A Case Study of Pretesting of the U.S. Census Bureau Bilingual Spanish/English Questionnaire | |
Cognitive Interviewing in Non-English Languages: A Cross-Cultural Perspective | |
Translation, Adaptation, and Assessment | |
Translation, Adaptation, and Design | |
Evaluation of a Multistep Survey Translation Process | |
Developments in Translation Verification Procedures in Three Multilingual Assessments: A Plea for an Integrated Translation and Adaptation Monitoring Tool | |
Culture, Cognition, and Response | |
Cognition, Communication, and Culture: Implications for the Survey Response Process | |
Cultural Emphasis on Honor, Modesty, or Self-Enhancement: Implications for the Survey-Response Process | |
Response Styles and Culture | |
Key Process Components and Quality | |
Quality Assurance and Quality Control in Cross-National Comparative Studies | |
Sampling Designs for Cross-Cultural and Cross-National Survey Programs | |
Challenges in Cross-National Data Collection | |
A Survey Process Quality Perspective on Documentation | |
Harmonizing Survey Data | |
Nonresponse | |
The Use of Contact Data in Understanding Cross-National Differences in Unit Nonresponse | |
Item Nonresponse and Imputation of Annual Labor Income in Panel Surveys from a Cross-National Perspective | |
Analyzing Data | |
An Illustrative Review of Techniques for Detecting Inequivalences | |
Analysis Models for Comparative Surveys | |
Using Polytomous Item Response Theory to Examine Differential Item and Test Functioning: The Case of Work Ethic | |
Categorization Errors and Differences in the Quality of Questions in Comparative Surveys | |
Making Methods Meet: Mixed Design in Cross-Cultural Research | |
Global Survey Programs | |
The Globalization of Survey Research | |
Measurement Equivalence in Comparative Surveys: the European Social Survey (ESS)-From Design to Implementation and Beyond | |
The International Social Survey Programme: Annual Cross-National Surveys Since 1985 | |
Longitudinal Data Collection in Continental Europe: Experiences from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) | |
Assessment Methods in IEA's TIMSS and PIRLS International Assessments of Mathematics, Science, and Reading | |
Enhancing Quality and Comparability in the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) | |
The Gallup World Poll | |
References | |
Subject Index | |
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |