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A Comparison of Results from a Spanish and English Mail Survey: Effects of Instruction Placement on Item Missingness
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Abstract Few research studies compare results from self-administered bilingual paper questionnaires
on how the positioning of skip instructions may affect the respondent’s ability to follow skip
patterns. Using data from the 2004 and 2005 of the Phase 5 Pregnancy Risk Assessment
Monitoring System (PRAMS) ... view more
Few research studies compare results from self-administered bilingual paper questionnaires
on how the positioning of skip instructions may affect the respondent’s ability to follow skip
patterns. Using data from the 2004 and 2005 of the Phase 5 Pregnancy Risk Assessment
Monitoring System (PRAMS) mail survey questionnaire, this paper attempts to fill this gap. We
examined whether the positioning of skip instructions can produce differences in item
nonresponse rates in subsequent items and how results compare between English and
Spanish language questionnaires. These results will be of interest to designers of bilingual
self-administered survey questionnaires in guiding respondents through the intended
navigational path with skip patterns.... view less
Keywords
questionnaire; survey research; mail survey; English language; Spanish language; response behavior; multilingualism; data collection method
Classification
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Document language
English
Publication Year
2013
Page/Pages
13 p.
Journal
Survey Methods: Insights from the Field (2013)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.13094/SMIF-2013-00006
ISSN
2296-4754
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works