Ask: Research and Methods. Volume 27, Issue 1 (2018)
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Issue DOI: https://doi.org/10.18061/ask.v27i1
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Panel Survey Dilemma: How to Implement the Results of Pre-Testing in Consecutive Waves?
Weronika Boruc; Danuta Życzyńska-Ciołek pp. 3-22
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The Selection of Survey Modes on the Basis of Respondents' Preferences Analysis
Adam Rybak pp. 23-39
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Testing Question Order Effects of Self-perception of Risk Propensity on Simple Lottery Choices as Measures of the Actual Risk Propensity
Jakub Golik pp. 41-59
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Political Participation and Institutional Trust of Young Adults in Ukraine: Matching Economic and Political Conditions with European Social Survey Fieldwork Periods, 2004–2012
Viktoriia Muliavka pp. 61-86
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Europe of Uneven Data: Country Representation in International Surveys on Corruption, 1989–2017
Ilona Wysmułek pp. 87-104
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Item Panel Survey Dilemma: How to Implement the Results of Pre-Testing in Consecutive Waves?(The Ohio State University Libraries in partnership with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2018) Boruc, Weronika; Życzyńska-Ciołek, DanutaThe paper discusses the role of pre-testing in consecutive waves of a panel survey, investigating how attitudes and opinions change over long periods of time. On one hand, accounting for this change requires that the phrasing of questions should remain unaltered. On the other, pre-testing may reveal that respondents experience difficulty in understanding some items, for instance due to the possible shifts in meaning that occurred over time. The paper discusses the issue of implementing the results of a pretest, presenting experiences gained during pre-testing of the Polish Panel Survey POLPAN 1988–2018, conducted in March 2018. Questionnaire items selected for analysis deal with the determinants of life success, the intensity of social-group conflicts, and the self-evaluation of social position. The main conclusion is that the questionnaire items should undergo minor modifications, but only if necessary, while the feedback from pre-testing should be used in fieldwork instructions for interviewers and should also be taken into account in the interpretation of the results of the main survey.Item The Selection of Survey Modes on the Basis of Respondents' Preferences Analysis(The Ohio State University Libraries in partnership with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2018) Rybak, AdamThe following study addresses the problem of predicting the respondents' survey preferences when implementing a mixed-mode survey design. Most previous experimental research implies that offering respondents the choice of modes results in a drop in response rates. The consequence of that effect is a need to establish survey mode preference predictors that will make the improvement of mixed-mode survey quality possible. Sending a request for participation in the applied mode to a subcategory of the sample, the one we suppose would most likely prefer that mode, can raise response rates, and quality of measurement, and sometimes reduce the costs of the research. Because of the practical aspect, these predictors should be included or be deducible from the survey frame and restricted to the specific sociocultural area. This article will include an overview both of strategies of mode preference research and of possible predictors of preference itself. Then the ESS Mixed Mode Experiment from 2015 conducted by the team from the Polish Academy of Sciences will be presented. The data from this experiment was used to create logistic regression models analyzing which socio-demographic variables influence the mode preference among Polish respondents. One possible application is use of the conclusions to address future participation requests, which will be based on the mode probably preferred by the specific sample members.Item Testing Question Order Effects of Self-perception of Risk Propensity on Simple Lottery Choices as Measures of the Actual Risk Propensity(The Ohio State University Libraries in partnership with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2018) Golik, JakubUncertainty together with the necessity of making choices inevitably results in risky decisions. For many years now, scientists have been studying notions connected with risk such as risk management, risk perception or risk propensity. While many sophisticated methods regarding measurement of risk propensity have been developed so far, it seems that little attention has been paid to checking whether they are not inherently flawed. The main goal of this article is to check with a simple preliminary study whether questionnaire based methods of risk propensity assessment are not susceptible to question order effects. The research is focused on respondents' answers to simple lottery choices as measures of their risk propensity. However, what would happen if the respondents were first asked how they perceive their own risk propensity? In order to answer this query a few questions designed to measure risk propensity and self-perception of risk propensity have been interspersed in a questionnaire of another research project. Furthermore, as an additional output of the study, the correlation has been checked between self-perception of risk propensity and the actual assessment of risk propensity based on the questions used. The results of the study show that question order effects are partially present in the setting described. Some conclusions and recommendations for further research are made based on the results. Finally, it can be concluded from the research that simple self-perception of risk propensity was significantly correlated with measures of actual risk propensity used.Item Political Participation and Institutional Trust of Young Adults in Ukraine: Matching Economic and Political Conditions with European Social Survey Fieldwork Periods, 2004–2012(The Ohio State University Libraries in partnership with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2018) Muliavka, ViktoriiaWhereas economic grievance and the political opportunity structure could be the basis for understanding Ukrainian youth political participation and institutional trust, to date, no one has systematically applied the necessary contextual information to survey data to make this claim. To study these topics with survey data, we would need to match this context to the specific fieldwork periods in which the survey data was collected. In this article, I match the economic and political situations of young adults in Ukraine with the fieldwork periods of the European Social Survey (ESS) from 2004 to 2012. This facilitates the use of ESS to test theories of grievance and political opportunity structure. I found that periods of economic grievance do not neatly align with trends in participation and trust. The possibility is open for the continual low participation and trust to be associated with the political opportunity structure provided predominantly by political parties during mass uprisings.Item Europe of Uneven Data: Country Representation in International Surveys on Corruption, 1989–2017(The Ohio State University Libraries in partnership with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2018) Wysmułek, IlonaThe fundamental principle of meaningful comparative analysis of corruption featuring cross-national survey data is that countries are equally represented across time. Yet, since 1989, this principle has been consistently violated. This article examines (a) the extent to which country coverage is uneven in 45 European countries in cross-national survey projects with items on corruption during 1989–2017 and (b) the dynamics of the change of inequalities in country representation. I examined a total of 89 survey waves of 21 international survey projects, including the Eurobarometer, the European Social Survey, the International Social Survey Program, the World Values Survey, and others. The results show that the differences in representation between European countries are systematic, significant, and rising. The Post-Soviet country group is particularly underrepresented both in specialized surveys on corruption and in general surveys with corruption items.Item Back Matter (Volume 27, Issue 1, 2018)(The Ohio State University Libraries in partnership with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2018)Item Front Matter (Volume 27, Issue 1, 2018)(The Ohio State University Libraries in partnership with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2018)