Zodpovídání otázek dotazníkového průzkumu: interpretace otázky

• Authors: Vinopal J.

Title variants

EN

RESPONDING PROCESS IN THE SURVEY: INTERPRETATION OF THE QUESTION

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article stands as a first part of a series about the question answering process during standardized surveys. The series conceptually draws on the Cognitive Aspects of Survey Methodology (CASM) and hence it maps primarily cognitive aspects of responding process. At the very beginning the interview situation itself is described and its interactional/communication, cognitive and formal components are defined. The answering process is in accord with prevailing theories described in the course of the question interpretation, memories retrieval, making the judgement and editing the answer. The first part of the whole series concentrates on the interpretation phase. The topic of question representation is elaborated through the psychological conception of mental representation in detail and several examples show implications for survey quality. Schemas and scenarios are then described as an 'at hand' tools for interpretation of the question, and these are again illustrated by some examples. In the end, priming is mentioned as another possible source of interpretation bias.

Keywords

EN

QUESTION INTERPRETATION; SURVEY INTERVIEW; SURVEY QUESTION

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY
• OTHER_SOCIAL_SCIENCES: OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše společnost (Our Society)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 10-14
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Vinopal J.

• J. Vinopal, Centrum pro vyzkum verejneho mineni, Sociologicky ustav AV CR, v.v.i., Jilska 1, 110 00, Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07CZAAAA03346894