Quality of different scales in an online survey in Mexico and Colombia

The formulation of theories and hypotheses is done at the level of concepts. These concepts are often tested by operationalizing them using survey questions. However, measurement errors make it impossible for survey questions to measure the concepts of interest perfectly. In order to correct for mea...

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Autores: Revilla, Melanie, Ochoa, Carlos
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Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Recursos:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palavra-chave:Latin America
Central America
Mexico
Colombia
Quality
Measurement errors
Multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) experiments
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spelling Quality of different scales in an online survey in Mexico and ColombiaRevilla, MelanieOchoa, CarlosLatin AmericaCentral AmericaMexicoColombiaQualityMeasurement errorsMultitrait-multimethod (MTMM) experimentsThe formulation of theories and hypotheses is done at the level of concepts. These concepts are often tested by operationalizing them using survey questions. However, measurement errors make it impossible for survey questions to measure the concepts of interest perfectly. In order to correct for measurement errors, information is needed about their size, or the size of their complement, the quality. For the USA and Europe, a lot is already known about the quality of questions, but this has not yet been studied in some other parts of the world. In this paper, we use a multitrait-multimethod approach to estimate the quality of 27 questions in Mexico and Colombia. These initial results on quality for Central and Latin American countries show quality estimates that are relatively similar in terms of their relationships with the scale characteristics to what has been observed in the USA and Europe.SAGE Publications202420242015info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/68904http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1866802X1500700305reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésJournal of Politics in Latin America. 2015 Dec;7(3):157-77© 2015 SAGE Publications Ltd. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 License (https://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work as published without adaptation or alteration, provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/689042026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title Quality of different scales in an online survey in Mexico and Colombia
spellingShingle Quality of different scales in an online survey in Mexico and Colombia
Revilla, Melanie
Latin America
Central America
Mexico
Colombia
Quality
Measurement errors
Multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) experiments
title_short Quality of different scales in an online survey in Mexico and Colombia
title_full Quality of different scales in an online survey in Mexico and Colombia
title_fullStr Quality of different scales in an online survey in Mexico and Colombia
title_full_unstemmed Quality of different scales in an online survey in Mexico and Colombia
title_sort Quality of different scales in an online survey in Mexico and Colombia
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Revilla, Melanie
Ochoa, Carlos
author Revilla, Melanie
author_facet Revilla, Melanie
Ochoa, Carlos
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Latin America
Central America
Mexico
Colombia
Quality
Measurement errors
Multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) experiments
topic Latin America
Central America
Mexico
Colombia
Quality
Measurement errors
Multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) experiments
description The formulation of theories and hypotheses is done at the level of concepts. These concepts are often tested by operationalizing them using survey questions. However, measurement errors make it impossible for survey questions to measure the concepts of interest perfectly. In order to correct for measurement errors, information is needed about their size, or the size of their complement, the quality. For the USA and Europe, a lot is already known about the quality of questions, but this has not yet been studied in some other parts of the world. In this paper, we use a multitrait-multimethod approach to estimate the quality of 27 questions in Mexico and Colombia. These initial results on quality for Central and Latin American countries show quality estimates that are relatively similar in terms of their relationships with the scale characteristics to what has been observed in the USA and Europe.
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