What Can We Learn From Open Questions in Surveys? A Case Study on Non-Voting Reported in the 2013 German Longitudinal Election Study

What Can We Learn From Open Questions in Surveys? A Case Study on Non-Voting Reported in the 2013 German Longitudinal Election Study

Open survey questions are often used to evaluate closed questions. However, they can fulfil this function only if there is a strong link between answers to open questions and answers to related closed questions. Using reasons for non-voting reported in the German Longitudinal Election Study 2013, we...

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Main Authors: Henning Silber, Cornelia Zuell, Steffen-M. Kuehnel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2020-04-01
Series:Methodology
Subjects:
open questions
data quality
election
non-voting
random imputation
Online Access:https://meth.psychopen.eu/index.php/meth/article/view/2801

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