Title: Additional Languages and Representativeness
Abstract: This chapter examines at which stages of a survey different foreigner groups are lost, with a special focus on problems with the survey language as a reason for nonobservation. It differentiates between two modes, using data from a telephone-based survey as well as data from face-to-face surveys. The chapter identifies the stages where a better language tailoring would help to recruit more nonnative speakers of the survey language(s) in order to improve the representativeness of the survey. It also examines reasons for missingness at different stages of the survey process. The chapter analyzes the representativeness of the people who speak one of the three Swiss survey languages and explores whether adding people who can potentially be reached by an additional language will improve representativeness. It shows that especially foreigners from English-speaking countries and from countries in which neither a national language nor English is spoken are heavily underrepresented in the surveys studied.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-09-28
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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