The European Values Study 2017: On the Way to the Future Using Mixed-Modes

Luijkx, Ruud; Jonsdottir, Gudbjorg; Gummer, Tobias; Stähli, Michèle Ernst; Frederiksen, Morten; Ketola, Kimmo; Reeskens, Tim; Brislinger, Evelyn; Christmann, Pablo; Gunnarsson, Stefán Þór; Hjaltason, Árni Bragi; Joye, Dominique; Lomazzi, Vera; Maineri, Angelica; Milbert, Patricia; Ochsner, Michael; Pollien, Alexandre; Sapin, Marlène; Solanes, Ivet; Verhoeven, Sascha; Wolf, Christof

doi:10.1093/esr/jcaa049

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“…For this study, we used LISS panel data: a probability-based household panel study, representative of the Dutch population. The initial data collection was part of the fifth wave of the European Values Study (EVS) ( Luijkx et al, 2020 ), and was gathered online between 1 September 2017 and 31 January 2018. With a response rate of approximately 80%, the first sample consisted of 2,053 web-respondents.…”

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Are we in this together? Changes in anti-immigrant sentiments during the COVID-19 pandemic

Muis

Reeskens

2022

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

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The COVID-19 pandemic is posing a threat to people all across the globe. According to traditional literature, threat perceptions induce anti-immigrant sentiments, as ingroup identity and self-interest are strengthened at the expense of the outgroup. In this study, we investigate whether the COVID-19 pandemic indeed increases anti-immigrant sentiments, or that this type of threat elicits other or no group related responses. We also look at whether such responses are expressed more strongly among specific subgroups in Dutch society. To do so, we use unique longitudinal panel data based on the European Values Study 2017, with a repeated measure in May 2020, during national lockdown in the Netherlands. Based on structural equation modeling, we demonstrate that anti-immigrant sentiments have not increased due to (perceived threat of) the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, negative opinions towards immigrants decreased between 2017 and 2020 in the Netherlands, for which we provide alternative explanations. Although some subgroups do experience more threat than others due to the coronavirus, such as women, first generation immigrants, and the elderly, this does not lead to more negative feelings towards outgroups. Whether this is due to the fact that individuals feel threatened by everyone, regardless of group membership, should be explored in future research.

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Are we in this together? Changes in anti-immigrant sentiments during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Reeskens

2022

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

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“…Traditionally, these large‐scale population surveys were based on interviewer‐administered surveying, but more recently researchers doing these kinds of surveys have been under pressure to adopt innovative methods due to increasing nonresponse rates and survey costs (e.g. Luijkx et al, 2021; Wolf et al, 2021). As Luijkx et al (2021) have argued, knowledge about how a particular design decision will impact a survey's performance indicators is lacking in many countries, which implies that testing to gather more evidence is necessary.…”

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“…Luijkx et al, 2021; Wolf et al, 2021). As Luijkx et al (2021) have argued, knowledge about how a particular design decision will impact a survey's performance indicators is lacking in many countries, which implies that testing to gather more evidence is necessary. If researchers want, or are forced, to implement innovative methods such as web‐based interviewing for general social surveys, before this necessary evidence is gathered, they will be operating with uncertainty regarding how each design decision may affect performance indicators—a situation for which RSDs offer a solution.…”

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Using a Responsive Survey Design to Innovate Self-Administered Mixed-Mode Surveys

Gummer

Christmann

Verhoeven

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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society

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Implementing innovations in surveys often results in uncertainty concerning how different design decisions will affect key performance indicators such as response rates, nonresponse bias, or survey costs. Thus, responsive survey designs have been developed to better cope with such situations. In the present study, we propose a responsive survey design that relies on experimentation in the earlier phases of the survey to decide between different design choices of which—prior to data collection—their impact on performance indicators is uncertain. We applied this design to the European Values Study 2017/2018 in Germany that advanced its general social survey‐type design away from the traditional face‐to‐face mode to self‐administered modes. These design changes resulted in uncertainty as to how different incentive strategies and mode choice sequences would affect response rates, nonresponse bias, and survey costs. We illustrate the application and operation of the proposed responsive survey design, as well as an efficiency issue that accompanies it. We also compare the performance of the responsive survey design to a traditional survey design that would have kept all design characteristics static during the field period.

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“…Kreuter, Presser, & Tourangeau 2008), as is used in the current study. This is furthermore supported by experimental data from the European Values Study in 2017 (Luijkx et al 2020;EVS 2020) were respondents in Iceland were twice as likely to admit that they did not like to have Muslims as their neighbours in an online web survey as they were in a face to face interview.…”

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Attitudes towards refugees and Muslim immigrants in Iceland: The perceived link to terrorism

Valdimarsdóttir¹,

Jonsdottir²

2020

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In the past few years, millions have been forced to leave their homes seeking refuge in other countries, most displaced from Muslim majority countries. The inflow of refugees and recent terrorist attacks in Europe may have reinforced prejudice against Muslim immigrants in Europe. Research on these issues is almost non-existent in Iceland. Using a random sample of 3.360 individuals in late 2019 and a survey-based experimental design, we address several questions related to attitudes towards Muslim immigrants and refugees in Iceland. Our results indicate that just over half of the population is willing to accept more refugees than is currently done and does not want to limit the proportion of Muslims among them. Notwithstanding, about 44% of the public believe that the risk of terrorism will increase if Iceland accepts more immigrants from Muslim majority countries. Political orientation and education are associated with attitudes toward refugees, an association that is partly mediated through stereotypes of Muslims as a security threat. The findings also show that people who are informed that research finds no link between the number of Muslim immigrants and the risk of terrorism are less likely to stereotype Muslim immigrants as a security threat than people who get no such information. This type of information has similar effects on people irrespective of their political orientation. Consequently, the current study does not support the proposition that right-leaning individuals in Iceland are more distrustful of scientific information than those on the left. The effects are, however, significantly contingent on education.

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The European Values Study 2017: On the Way to the Future Using Mixed-Modes

Cited by 31 publications

References 21 publications

Are we in this together? Changes in anti-immigrant sentiments during the COVID-19 pandemic

Are we in this together? Changes in anti-immigrant sentiments during the COVID-19 pandemic

Using a Responsive Survey Design to Innovate Self-Administered Mixed-Mode Surveys

Attitudes towards refugees and Muslim immigrants in Iceland: The perceived link to terrorism

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