Editace odpovědi na výzkumný dotaz

• Authors: Vinopal Jiri

Title variants

EN

SURVEY ANSWER EDITING

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article stands as the fourth part of a series about the question answering process during standardized surveys and elaborates the phase of editing the response. Major moments and processes are explained that affect the shape of final answer at this stage and the narrow relationship of these facts to the nature and quality of survey data is pointed out. Step by step those phenomenons like rounding of numerical answers, the effect of answering scales in terms of its range, frequency, polarity or response order are elaborated and facts like response styles, range-frequency effect or positivity bias are mentioned. In the end, the problem of social desirability and its influence onto final answer is addressed, as well as some opportunities of elimination. Described aspects are related mainly to the distinction between factual and attitudinal questions, nonetheless in the course of presentation there are mentioned also particularities of some other question formats.

Keywords

EN

EDITING; SURVEY INTERVIEW; SURVEY METHODOLOGY; SURVEY QUESTION

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše společnost (Our Society)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 2
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Vinopal Jiri

• Jiri Vinopal, Sociologicky ustav AVCR, v.v.i., Jilska 1, Praha 1, 110 00, Czech Republic, http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/4078/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA05857