Accounting for cross-country-cross-time variations in measurement invariance testing. A case of political participation
"In many works involving measurement invariance testing, researchers concentrate on one type of grouping only, such as countries, even when the comparisons they make involve multiple types of grouping, such as countries and years. In this article, we propose a procedure allowing to incorporate...
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"In many works involving measurement invariance testing, researchers concentrate on one type of grouping only, such as countries, even when the comparisons they make involve multiple types of grouping, such as countries and years. In this article, we propose a procedure allowing to incorporate more than one type of grouping into the invariance testing. For that, we use the example of political participation which is often studied in a comparative perspective where both countries and years are considered. The results show that the comparability of levels of political participation in Europe over the last 20 years is limited. With a simulation study, we show that one remedy for this could be alignment optimization which produces more accurate estimates of means and standard errors. Furthermore, we demonstrate that ignoring the non-invariance can change our substantive conclusions regarding the aggregated trends of participation.
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| spelling | doaj.art-0674473b95e04f94a6fe2b71b461cf8f2022-12-22T02:46:11ZengEuropean Survey Research AssociationSurvey Research Methods1864-33612022-04-0116110.18148/srm/2022.v16i1.7909Accounting for cross-country-cross-time variations in measurement invariance testing. A case of political participationPiotr Koc0Artur Pokropek1Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of SciencesInstitute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences "In many works involving measurement invariance testing, researchers concentrate on one type of grouping only, such as countries, even when the comparisons they make involve multiple types of grouping, such as countries and years. In this article, we propose a procedure allowing to incorporate more than one type of grouping into the invariance testing. For that, we use the example of political participation which is often studied in a comparative perspective where both countries and years are considered. The results show that the comparability of levels of political participation in Europe over the last 20 years is limited. With a simulation study, we show that one remedy for this could be alignment optimization which produces more accurate estimates of means and standard errors. Furthermore, we demonstrate that ignoring the non-invariance can change our substantive conclusions regarding the aggregated trends of participation. https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/view/7909measurement invariance; political participation; measurement equivalence; alignment optimization; civic participation |
| spellingShingle | Piotr Koc Artur Pokropek Accounting for cross-country-cross-time variations in measurement invariance testing. A case of political participation Survey Research Methods measurement invariance; political participation; measurement equivalence; alignment optimization; civic participation |
| title | Accounting for cross-country-cross-time variations in measurement invariance testing. A case of political participation |
| title_full | Accounting for cross-country-cross-time variations in measurement invariance testing. A case of political participation |
| title_fullStr | Accounting for cross-country-cross-time variations in measurement invariance testing. A case of political participation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Accounting for cross-country-cross-time variations in measurement invariance testing. A case of political participation |
| title_short | Accounting for cross-country-cross-time variations in measurement invariance testing. A case of political participation |
| title_sort | accounting for cross country cross time variations in measurement invariance testing a case of political participation |
| topic | measurement invariance; political participation; measurement equivalence; alignment optimization; civic participation |
| url | https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/view/7909 |
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