Web Survey Bibliography
Relevance & Research Question: More and more surveys use multiple modes, which supplement or replace traditional interviewer modes by web. In multi-mode questionnaire design, usually some consideration is given to mode-specific measurement error. Despite this consideration, however, these measurement effects are frequently unexpectedly large and hamper publication. For this reason, there is a strong incentive to better predict measurement effects. Measurement effects are determined by the interplay between characteristics of the questionnaire and characteristics of the respondents. In our research, we investigate the existence and utility of so-called questionnaire and respondent profiles, in which these characteristics are summarized, for predicting measurement effects. As a first research question, we ask whether questionnaires can be coded reliably on item characteristics that are suggested in the literature as influential in mode-specific measurement effects.
Methods & Data: We constructed a typology of item characteristics from the literature and applied it to a wide range of surveys; the Dutch Labour Force Survey of Statistics Netherlands and the core studies of the LISS panel of CentERdata. For all surveys, 16 item characteristics are coded by two main coders, while 7 of these 16 item characteristics that are assumed to be relatively influential in evoking measurement error are also coded by a third coder. Reliability diagnostics are derived for the various item characteristics.
Results: Analyses of the survey coding scores indicate a relatively low reliability for characteristics that literature suggested as influential in mode-specific measurement effects: Sensitivity to social desirable answers, potential presumption of filter question, emotional charge, centrality, and language complexity.
Added Value: It is investigated to what extent coding of questionnaires on its item characteristics is reliable and to what extent questionnaire profiles can be constructed based on this coding. Along with process data and register data that are linked to individual respondents who have filled out multiple questionnaires, the questionnaire and respondent profiles might shed light on the occurrence and scope of measurement effects for specific respondents and specific questionnaire characteristics over different survey modes.
Web survey bibliography - Schouten, B. (20)
- Adaptive survey designs to minimize survey mode effects – a case study on the Dutch Labor Force...; 2016; Calinescu, M.; Schouten, B.
- Tailored fieldwork design to increase representative household survey response: an experiment in the...; 2015; Luiten, A.; Schouten, B.
- Coding Surveys on their Item Characteristics: Reliability Diagnostics; 2015; Bais, F.; Schouten, B.; Toepoel, V.
- Selection error in single- and mixed mode surveys of the Dutch general population; 2015; Hox, J., Klausch, L. T., Schouten, B.
- Evaluating mixed-mode redesign strategies against benchmark surveys: the case of the Crime Victimization...; 2014; Klausch, L. T., Hox, J., Schouten, B.
- The impact of contact effort on mode-specific selection and measurement bias; 2014; Schouten, B., van der Laan, J., Cobben, F.
- The use of within-subject experiments for estimating measurement effects in mixed-mode surveys ; 2014; Klausch, L. T., Schouten, B., Hox, J.
- The impact of contact effort and interviewer performance on mode-specific nonresponse and measurement...; 2014; Schouten, B., Cobben, F., van der Laan, J., Arends, J.
- Measurement Effects of Survey Mode on the Equivalence of Attitudinal Rating Scale Questions; 2013; Klausch, L. T., Hox, J., Hox, J., Schouten, B.
- Adaptive survey designs to minimize survey mode effects. A case study on the Dutch Labour Force Survey...; 2013; Calinescu, M., Schouten, B.
- Optimizing quality of response through adaptive survey designs; 2013; Schouten, B., Calinescu, M., Luiten, A.
- Mode Effects in Mixed-Mode Surveys: Prevention, Diagnostics, and Adjustment 1; 2013; de Leeuw, E. D., Dillman, D. A., Schouten, B.
- Estimating Measurement Effects of Survey Modes From Between and Within Subject Designs; 2013; Klausch, L. T., Hox, J., Schouten, B.
- Mixed-mode including web: Recent developments at Statistics Netherlands; 2013; Luiten, A., Schouten, B.
- Disentangling Mode-Specific Selection and Measurement Bias in Social Surveys; 2012; Buelens, B., van der Laan, J., Schouten, B., Klausch, L. T., van der Brakel, J., Burger, J.
- Assessing Measurement Equivalence and Bias of Questions in Mixed-mode Surveys Under Controlled Sample...; 2012; Klausch, L. T., Hox, J., Schouten, B.
- The Representativity of Web Surveys of the General Population compared to Traditional Modes and Mixed...; 2012; Klausch, L. T., Schouten, B., Hox, J.
- Disentangling relative mode effects for the web survey mode in the Safety Monitor; 2011; Schouten, B., van de Brakel, J., Buelens, B., Klausch, L. T., van der Laan, J.
- Indicators for the representativeness of survey response; 2009; Schouten, B., Cobben, F., Bethlehem, J.
- Nonresponse Bias in Surveys; 2009; Bethlehem, J., Vehovar, V., Stoop, I., Schouten, B., Shlomo, N., Skinner, C., Montaquila, J.