In sum, the size of response order effects as well as that of scale effects and that of the
effects of numeric values associated with response categories decreases with age. In …

Social researchers increasingly survey children and young adolescents. They are convinced
that information about perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors of childrenshould be collected …

Instead of using their parents or caretakers as informants, children are increasingly the
principal informants about their own experiences, perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors …

Using data from 548 experiments in telephone surveys conducted by the Gallup
Organization, we explored how attributes of questions and respondents moderate response …

Evaluating Survey Questions Page 1 Journal of Official Statistics Vol. 3, No. 2, 1987, pp. 191–207
(Ç) Statistics Sweden 1Q1 Evaluating Survey Questions Wendy Sykes and Jean Morton-Williams" …

Since the early 1840s, survey Int. erviews hav~ become the dominant method of data
collection In empirical social research (Phi II ips, 1871; Kaase, Ott, & Scheuch, 1883) …

Groves, Lyberg, Mathiowetz, & Sudman, 1991; Groves, 1989; Lyberg et al., 1997). However,
surveying an adult population is far from simple. Even slight variations in question wording …

Among the most commonly used measurement instruments in social and psychological
research is the response scale-a question or statement with an accompanying set of …

This article reports the effect that the ranges presented in answer categories for survey
questions can have on respondent answers. Response categories were manipulated in a …

Previous research has documented effects of the order in which response choices are
offered to respondents using closed-ended survey items, but no theory of the psychological …