Using Web Probing to Elucidate Respondents' Understanding of 'Minorities' in Cross-Cultural Comparative Research

Abstract: Due to the growing significance of international studies, the need for tools to assess the equivalence of items is pressing. Web probing, which is implementing verbal probing techniques traditionally used in cognitive interviewing in online surveys, is a method to complement quantitative techniques to establish equivalence of items in crosscultural research. We illustrate this approach by assessing the question of 'how important it is that government authorities respect and protect the rights of minorities', which was originally used in the International Social Survey Program, for respondents in five countries (Germany, Britain, the U.S., Mexico, and Spain). First, participants answered this question using a 7-point Likert scale. Then they wrote freely what types of minorities they had thought of. Whether country differences in the response patterns can be interpreted substantially depends partially on how similarly the term 'minorities' is understood across these five contexts. Ou

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Ask: Research and Methods ; 28 (2019) 1 ; 3-20

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(who)
SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository
(when)
2019
Creator
Braun, Michael
Behr, Dorothée
Meitinger, Katharina
Raiber, Klara
Repke, Lydia

DOI
10.18061/ask.v28i1.0001
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-65927-5
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Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Braun, Michael
  • Behr, Dorothée
  • Meitinger, Katharina
  • Raiber, Klara
  • Repke, Lydia
  • SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository

Time of origin

  • 2019

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