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Questions for Surveys: Current Trends and Future Directions

Nora Cate Schaeffer1, Jennifer Dykema1

  • 1N ORA C ATE S CHAEFFER is the Sewell Bascom Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Faculty Director of the University of Wisconsin Survey Center, Madison, WI, USA. J ENNIFER D YKEMA is an Associate Research Scientist and Survey Methodologist at the University of Wisconsin Survey Center, Madison, WI, USA. We wish to thank Barbara Forsyth, Eleanor Singer, Roger Tourangeau, Gordon Willis, and the POQ editors for various helpful contributions and comments, and Jeremy Beach for research assistance. The research reported here was supported in part by the Wisconsin Center for Demography and Ecology (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Center Grant [R24 HD047873 to James R. Walker]); by the Wisconsin Center for Demography of Health and Aging (National Institute on Aging Center Grant [P30 AG017266 to Robert M. Hauser]); and by the University of Wisconsin Survey Center (UWSC), which receives support from the College of Letters and Science.

Public Opinion Quarterly
|June 28, 2014
PubMed
Summary

This review identifies key trends in survey question research, emphasizing future directions. A proposed decision-oriented framework offers a systematic approach to understanding question characteristics for improved study design.

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