Web surveys are becoming more and more popular in survey research, mainly because of their lower costs. With the increase of the Internet coverage in most European countries, the response rates are becoming high enough to ...

Purpose: Some respondents already complete web surveys via mobile devices, even when this is unintended. However, these devices vary at several levels from PCs (e.g. screen size). Therefore, it is necessary to study the ...

Although Agree/Disagree (A/D) rating scales are hugely popular in the social sciences, a large body of research conducted during more than five decades has documented the bias that results from acquiescence in responses ...

Survey research is the most frequently used data collection method in Sociology, Political Science, Communication, Opinion research and Marketing (Saris and Gallhofer 2007). Nearly everybody agrees that such data contains ...

Millennials have been the focus of quite some research because of their differences with older cohorts. Besides, young respondents have been considered as a hard target population for surveys. However, to our knowledge, ...

Surveys mainly use questions in which it is allowed to answer only through a closed series of alternatives. The choice of the labels for these closed alternatives is an important decision. Depending on this choice, different ...

The goal of this paper is to investigate the effects of forcing the respondents to slow down while answering online surveys. This is done by setting up an experiment with respondents from the Netquest panel in Mexico in ...

Web surveys are becoming every day more present in survey research. However, there are still problems with these surveys that have not been solved yet, in particular in the case of online panels using economic incentives. ...

This dissertation studies the impact of the mode of data collection on the quality of answers to survey questions, defined as the product of reliability and validity. Using data from the Netherlands about different topics ...

Measurement equivalence is a pre-requisite to be able to make comparisons across groups. In this paper we are interested in testing measurement equivalence across respondents answering surveys done using different modes ...