Questions and Answers in Attitude Surveys: Experiments on Question Form, Wording, and Context

by Howard Schuman, Stanley Presser

Comprehensive in its coverage, Questions and Answers in Attitude Surveys covers such issues as question order and response order effects; the lack of overlap between respondent-generated categories for open-ended questions and the closed categories generated by research, even with extensive pre-testing with open questions; the effects of explicitly offering respondents a "don′t know" or a middle opinion alternative; attitude strength and its relation to reliability; and issues of wording tone.

392 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1981

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