How to Choose Interview Language in Different Countries

Andreenkova, Anna

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“…HIV risk per cep tions and sex ual be hav ior vary widely by re li gious de nom i na tion in Malawi (Trinitapoli 2009;Trinitapoli and Regnerus 2006) and eth nic i tyspe cifc cul tural ac tiv i ties, such as ini ti a tion rites, are ways that peo ple learn about sex ual health (Munthali and Zulu 2007). Administering sur veys in an un fa mil iar lan guage can lead to item non re sponse and sys tem atic mea sure ment er ror (Andreenkova 2018). This could be an is sue given that all our sur veys were ad min is tered in Chichewa, but this con cern is sub stan tially miti gated by the fact that vir tu ally all our sub jects are flu ent speak ers of ei ther Chichewa or the mu tu ally in tel li gi ble lan guage Chinyanja.…”

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You Know What I Know: Interviewer Knowledge Effects in Subjective Expectation Elicitation

Kerwin

Reynoso

2021

Demography

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Directly eliciting individuals' subjective beliefs via surveys is increasingly popular in social science research, but doing so via face-to-face surveys has an important downside: the interviewer's knowledge of the topic may spill over onto the respondent's recorded beliefs. Using a randomized experiment that used interviewers to implement an information treatment, we show that reported beliefs are significantly shifted by interviewer knowledge. Trained interviewers primed respondents to use the exact numbers used in the training, nudging them away from higher answers; recorded responses decreased by about 0.3 standard deviations of the initial belief distribution. Furthermore, respondents with stronger prior beliefs were less affected by interviewer knowledge. We suggest corrections for this issue from the perspectives of interviewer recruitment, survey design, and experiment setup.

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Section: Imbalancementioning

confidence: 99%

You Know What I Know: Interviewer Knowledge Effects in Subjective Expectation Elicitation

Kerwin

Reynoso

2021

Demography

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Afterword: Future Directions in Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural (3MC) Survey Research

Jong¹,

Hibben²,

Kelley³

et al. 2020

The Essential Role of Language in Survey Research

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IndexOne year is an ambitious timeline to publish any book. Thanks to the power of collaboration among our 28 contributors, we were propelled to complete this book project within that time frame.We would like to acknowledge the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) for providing a platform in the form of an annual conference where we cultivate ideas, foster collaborations, and champion each other's efforts. The AAPOR conference short course by Daphna Oyserman and Norbert Schwarz ignited our passion for writing this book to share with a broad audience survey research theories, practices, and outlook in cross-cultural contexts. The incredible support from the leadership at RTI International's Social, Statistical and Environmental Sciences (SSES) Group made the publishing idea viable.We owe RTI Press a deep debt of gratitude for the thoughtful and rigorous editing, guidance, and trust during the past year and for making the book open access. We thank Editor-in-Chief Jenny Wiley, Senior Manager Anna Wetterberg, and Publishing Editor Annie Gering. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their review of the manuscript. We also thank Senior Editors Sharon Barrell, Merrie Aiken, and Marceline Murawski at RTI's Multimedia Communication Services. Melinda Welch facilitated many aspects of the process and we appreciate her help. We acknowledge Lisa Thalji, Douglas Currivan, Murrey Olmsted, Marjorie Hinsdale-Shouse, Rachel Caspar, and Craig Hill.Last but not least, we are grateful of the Foreword penned by Daphna and Norbert and the Afterword by Comparative Survey Design and Implementation consortium's Julie de Jong, Kristin Cibelli Hibben, Jennifer Kelley, and Dorothée Behr. Our special thanks go to Peter Mohler for his helpful review comments. It is the vision and role-modeling from these pioneers and many others that gave, and continue to give, many of us the courage to create our own path.

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