The Impact of Question and Respondent Characteristics on Comprehension and Mapping Difficulties

By Allyson Holbrook, Young-Im Cho, T. Johnson. 2006

117 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Statistics and Probability

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In Sociology and Political Science

1. T. Johnson
2. P. Lietz
3. R. Jensen
4. Morten Jakobsen
5. Roziah Mohd Janor
6. Rohana Yusoff

In Statistics and Probability

1. P. Lietz
2. R. Jensen
3. Morten Jakobsen
4. Roziah Mohd Janor
5. Rohana Yusoff

Citations in the corpus

• Research into Questionnaire Design: A Summary of the Literature (2010, background): “Results of multilevel analyses reported by Holbrook et al. (2006) have shown that the level of abstraction and the request for qualified judgements increase comprehension difficulties whereby these difficulties are not dependent on age or education as is frequently assumed.”
• Survey Research in Public Administration: Assessing Mainstream Journals with a Total Survey Error Framework (2012, background): “Poorly designed questionnaires that are ambiguous or overly complicated also make it diffi cult for respondents to comprehend and answer adequately (Holbrook, Cho, and Johnson 2006).”