Web Survey Bibliography
Title Response Order Effects in International Online Surveys
Author Thomas, R. K., Greenfield, S., Bremer, J.
Year 2006
Access date 24.09.2006
Abstract While response order effects have been demonstrated in orally presented surveys and paper-pencil/postal surveys (Krosnick, 1999), little work has been reported on response order effects for attitude measures in online surveys. In a series of online surveys with U.S. respondents, Thomas et al. (AAPOR, 2005) reported strong response order effects across scale types for vertically ordered scales. In this paper, we summarize a series of experiments conducted internationally (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and U.K.) with web-based surveys with single vertically presented scales. Across experiments, with scales that varied from 4 to 9 categories, and across languages and countries, we replicated strong response order effects for vertically oriented scales. That is, there is a higher endorsement of the most positive response category when it is presented on the top of the scale than when it is presented on the bottom. In many of the studies we also examined the correspondence of the scales with key criteria to determine the possibility of differential validity. Vertical scales with the negative response category on top generally had higher validity. We will discuss possible reasons for response order effects (including satisficing and reading mechanics for visual surveys) and examine some implications of response order effects for survey construction.
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Web Survey Bibliography - Italy (80)
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- Integration of different data collection techniques using the propensity score; 2009; Camillo, F., Conti, V., Ghiselli, S.
- Modelling online survey participation among Italian university graduates ; 2009; Cimini, C., Girotti, C., Gasperoni, G.
- Coverage rates of mobile telephones and the Internet in Italy ; 2009; Fabbris, L., Gorelli, S.
- An experiment on the effects of non-response reweighting on estimators' precision in a web survey; 2009; Fabrizi, E., Biffignandi, S., Toninelli, D.
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- The Electronic Questionnaire Experience in Business Surveys: mode effects on quality and on response...; 2009; Biffignandi, S., Siesto, G., Zeli, A.
- The new IT environment for the Italian consumer price survey; 2009; Giannini, R., Polidoro, F., Sgamba, A. M., Silipo, M., Spagnuolo, F., Virgillito, A.
- Is data collection via web a valid methodology?; 2008; Otero, P.
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- Avoiding Massive Automated Voting in Internet Polls ; 2008; Basso, A., Miraglia, M.
- Calibration and propensity score weighting in web surveys; 2007; Fabrizi, E., Biffignandi, S.
- The Transition from University to Work: Web Survey Process Quality; 2006; Quintano, C., Castellano, R., D'Agostino, A.
- Response Order Effects in International Online Surveys; 2006; Thomas, R. K., Greenfield, S., Bremer, J.
- Telephone and Web surveys: a study of the marginal effect mode; 2006; D'Agostino, A., Quintano, C., Castellano, R.
- Web survey on transition from university to work: measuring the marginal effect mode; 2006; D'Agostino, A., Quintano, C., Castellano, R.
- Trust, Identity, and the Effects of Voting Technologies on Voting Behavior; 2005; Oostveen, A. M., Besselaar, P.
- Web surveys: inference using weighting and imputation in the survey on graduates; 2005; Biffignandi, S., Fabrizi, E., Pratesi, M., Salvati, N.
- Web surveys: inference using weighting and imputation in the survey on graduates; 2005; Biffignandi, S., Fabrizi, E., Pratesi, M., Salvati, N.
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- The Transition from University toWork: Web Survey Process Quality; 2005; Quintano, C., Castellano, R., D'Agostino, A.
- Personality of people using Chat: An on-line research; 2005; Anolli, L., Villani, D., Riva, G.