RT Journal Article
SR 00
ID 10.1177/1525822x11414802
A1 Miller, K
A1 Fitzgerald, R.
A1 Padilla, J-L
A1 Willson, S
A1 Widdop, S.
A1 Caspar, R
A1 Dimov, M
A1 Gray, M
A1 Nunes, C.
A1 Pruefer, P
A1 Schoebi, N
A1 Schoua-Glusberg, A
T1 Design and Analysis of Cognitive Interviews for Comparative Multinational Testing
JF Field Methods
YR 2011
FD 2011-11-01
VO 23
IS 4
SP 379
OP 396
K1 cognitive interviewing, comparability, question evaluation, cross-cultural, questionnaire design
AB This article summarizes the work of the Comparative Cognitive Testing Workgroup, an international coalition of survey methodologists interested in developing an evidence-based methodology for examining the comparability of survey questions within cross-cultural or multinational contexts. To meet this objective, it was necessary to ensure that the cognitive interviewing (CI) method itself did not introduce method bias. Therefore, the workgroup first identified specific characteristics inherent in CI methodology that could undermine the comparability of CI evidence. The group then developed and implemented a protocol addressing those issues. In total, 135 cognitive interviews were conducted by participating countries. Through the process, the group identified various interpretive patterns resulting from sociocultural and language-related differences among countries as well as other patterns of error that would impede comparability of survey data.
PB SAGE Publications
SN 1525-822X
LK https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/17965/
UL http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1525822X11414802