Ekvivalence položek v mezinárodních datech: základní vymezení a možnosti analýzy

• Authors: Petra Anýžová

Title variants

EN

ITEM EQUIVALENCE IN CROSS-NATIONAL SURVEY RESEARCH: BASIC DEFINITION AND POSSIBILITIES FOR ANALYSIS

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article argues that the concept of equivalence is one of the most important methodological aspects of valid and reliable measurement in cross-national survey research. The important topic of survey measure equivalence has not been systematically in Czech social science publications to date and this article hopes to address this gap in the literature. Consequently, the two main goals of this article are (1) to acquaint the reader with techniques that are used to find questions that are interpreted in the same way across countries before data collection and (2) to describe the testing and evaluation of measurement indicators’ equivalence or comparability after data collection. This study presents cognitive approaches to “good” question wording practices, best translation practices and the application of both ‘emic’ (culture specific) and ‘etic’ (culture universal) approaches to survey question design. After data collection a range of statistic techniques are usually employed ranging from basic statistics such as the mean to advanced approaches such as multi-group structural equation modelling, multilevel modelling, latent class modelling and Item Response Theory). This article describes some of these techniques in the context of measurement equivalence and its associated research literature.

Keywords

EN

cross-national survey research; equivalence; measurement indicators; item comparability; latent variable and multilevel statistical techniques

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Data a výzkum - SDA Info (Data and Research - SDA Info)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 29-56

Contributors

author

Petra Anýžová

• Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy a Vysoká škola finanční a správní, o.p.s., Praha, Czech Republic