• Predicting measurement error variance in social surveys

  Oberski, Daniel L.; DeCastellarnau, Anna (2021-09)

  Social science commonly studies relationships among variables by employing survey questions. Answers to these questions will contain some degree of measurement error, distorting the relationships of interest. Such distortions ...
• When survey science met online tracking : presenting an error framework for metered data

  Bosch, Oriol J.; Revilla, Melanie (2021-02)

  Metered data (also called "web log data" or "web-tracking data") is a type of data obtained from a meter willingly installed by participants on their devices. A meter refers to a heterogeneous group of technologies that ...
• Estimating the size of measurement errors of the Satisfaction With Democracy survey indicator for different scales, countries and languages

  Poses, Carlos; Revilla, Melanie (2020-12)

  The Satisfaction With Democracy (SWD) indicator is often used in research. However, while there is debate about which concept it measures, the discussion about the size of its measurement errors (how well it measures the ...
• Support for mitigation and adaptation climate change policies : effects of five attitudinal factors

  Rubio, Maria; Revilla, Melanie (2020-04)

  The increasing social consciousness about the causes and consequences of climate change has not led to a correspondingly high support for concrete mitigation or adaptation policies. Thus, more research is needed about the ...
• Reciprocity between family generations in Germany: a within-person examination of longitudinal data

  Hämäläinen, Hans; Tanskanen, Antti O.; Danielsbacka, Mirkka; Arpino, Bruno (2018-11)

  Although reciprocity of intergenerational support has been widely considered in family studies, empirical investigations are still rather scarce. This study used data from four waves of the Panel Analysis of Intimate ...
• Do Millennials differ in terms of survey participation?

  Bosch, Oriol J.; Revilla, Melanie; Paura, Ezequiel (2018-07)

  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, ...
• The use of emojis by Millennials

  Bosch, Oriol J.; Revilla, Melanie (2018-07)

  The use of emojis has been increasing during the last years. Six billion of emojis are used every day. In addition, emojis, which originally were only present on the Internet, started to invade the offline world too. ...
• Machine-learning techniques for family demography: an application of random forests to the analysis of divorce determinants in Germany

  Arpino, Bruno; Le Moglie, Marco; Mencarini, Letizia (2018-04)

  Demographers often analyze the determinants of life-course events with parametric regression-type approaches. Here, we present a class of nonparametric approaches, broadly defined as machine learning (ML) techniques, and ...
• The impact of fertility and education on changes across cohorts and geographical areas in the demography of grandparenthood: the Italian case

  Di Gessa, Giorgio; Bordone, Valeria; Arpino, Bruno (2018-04)

  Grandparents have always played an important role in the Italian society and in family life; however, little is known about the demography of grandparenthood despite dramatic global demographic changes that are likely ...
• Machine learning for propensity score matching and weighting : comparing different estimation techniques and assessing ifferent balance diagnostics

  Cannas, Massimo; Arpino, Bruno (2018-01)

  Using an extensive simulation exercise, we address two open issues in propensity score analyses: how to estimate propensity scores and how to assess covariates balance. We compare the performance of several machine ...
• Two approaches to evaluate measurement quality in online surveys : an application using the Norwegian Citizen Panel

  DeCastellarnau, Anna; Revilla, Melanie (2017-05)

  Previous research has shown that measurement errors are large in data collected through surveys. However, the size of these errors varies depending on the language, the mode of data collection, the question‟s characteristics, ...
• Mass public decisions to promote democracy: the role of foreign policy dispositions

  Muradova, Lala (2017-04)

  Recent research argues that public attitudes on foreign policy matters is structured and constrained along broad foreign policy dispositions. Much of the scholarly literature have tested this assumption on foreign policy ...
• Country-of-origin gender ideology and immigrants’ gender role attitudes toward women’s employment

  Pessin, Léa; Arpino, Bruno (2017-02)

  Using cross-classified models and data from the European Social Survey, this article studies whether and under what conditions cultural values associated to gender roles in the country of origin influence immigrants’ gender ...
• The demography of grandparenthood: the role of family histories

  Arpino, Bruno; Gumà, Jordi; Julià, Albert (2017-01)

  The role of grandparents is increasingly important in ageing countries. We use a life course approach aiming at assessing the association between individual family histories (partnership and fertility histories) and ...
• Childcare arrangements and mothers’ satisfaction with work-family balance

  Luppi, Francesca; Arpino, Bruno (2016-11)

  A rapidly growing literature has been focusing on the relationship between fertility and life satisfaction. One key and robust finding in this literature is that parents tend to be more satisfied than their childless ...
• Arguments of physicists concerning the use of the first atomic bomb

  Saris, Willem E.; Gallhofer, Irmtraud N. (2016-02)

  The decisions that politicians have to make with respect to foreign policy are in general very complex because the possible strategies have multiple uncertain consequences. For such complex problems the mathematical decision ...
• Matching pre-processing of splitballot survey data for the analysis of double standards

  Arpino, Bruno (2016-02)

  Split-ballot data are often used to study double standards. The key problem of this design is that individual double standards cannot be identified. We propose a simple two-step approach based on a matching pre-processing ...
• An experiment comparing grids and item‐by‐item formats in web surveys completed through PC and smartphones

  Revilla, Melanie; Toninelli, Daniele; Ochoa, Carlos (2015-11)

  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 ...
• Does correction for measurement error have an effect on the structure and comparability of basic human values?

  Lilleoja, Laur; Saris, Willem E. (2015-10)

  It is a well-known fact that survey data always contains measurement errors, which can in different ways bias the results of an analysis (Alwin, 2007). In quantitative research, this problem has usually been ignored due ...
• Evaluation of the quality and invariance of survey questions

  Saris, Willem E. (2014-06)

  At several occasions we have been asked why our research with respect to quality and invariance of survey questions has been based on analyses of product-moment (Pearson) correlations and not on polychoric and polyserial ...

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