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  • Assessing social support networks in cross-national comparative surveys : measurement issues
    Hlebec, Valentina ; Mrzel, Maja ; Kogovšek, Tina
    In recent years many cross-national comparative surveys, such as Gender and Generation Programme, International Social Survey Programme, European Quality of Life Survey, or General Social Survey, ... have included assessment of social support networks. Generally, two approaches were used; the name generator approach and the role relation approach. As more cross-country surveys are conducted every year, it may seem reasonable to use such data sets, since they provide high quality comparisons across countries. However, one should pay close attention to the measurement instruments, as these may cause unintentional but systematic variability in the observed data. While the data from each survey can be of high quality Ćper seĆ, we claim that results from these surveys are not comparable, owing to their different measurement approaches and survey instruments. In this paper we present data from several experiments which show that scientific findings from these surveys depend significantly on questionnaire design.
    Source: Quality & quantity. - ISSN 0033-5177 (Vol. 46, no. 5, 2012, str. 1431-1449)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2012
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 30231645
    DOI

source: Quality & quantity. - ISSN 0033-5177 (Vol. 46, no. 5, 2012, str. 1431-1449)
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