-
Revisiting the Recommended Duration of Interviews Conducted by Mobile Phone in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Randomized Trial in Malawi Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Orsola Torrisi, Jethro Banda, Georges Reniers, Stéphane Helleringer
Guidelines for conducting surveys by mobile phone calls in low- and middle-income countries suggest keeping interviews short (<20 minutes). The evidence supporting this recommendation is scant, even though limiting interview duration might reduce the amount of data generated by such surveys. We recruited nearly 2,500 mobile phone users in Malawi and randomly allocated them to 10-, 20-, or 30-minute
-
Case-to-Condition Ratios in Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Adding Cases Instead of Removing Conditions Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Judith Glaesser
In qualitative comparative analysis, as with all methods, there is a question about how many cases are needed to make an analysis robust. In deciding on the number of cases, a key consideration is the number of conditions to be analyzed. I suggest that adding cases is preferable to dropping conditions if there are too many conditions relative to the number of cases. I first consider the relationship
-
Do You Have Two Minutes to Talk about Your Data? Willingness to Participate and Nonparticipation Bias in Facebook Data Donation Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Florian Keusch, Paulina K. Pankowska, Alexandru Cernat, Ruben L. Bach
Data donation is a novel approach to collecting digital trace data, where users are asked to download their retrospective data from a platform and share them with the researchers. Little is known about the willingness to donate data and the potential bias that may arise from nonparticipation. We conducted a study among over 900 German Facebook users asking them to donate two data packages. While around
-
Short Take: Designing a Multinational Smartphone App Survey during COVID-19: Rewards, Risks, and Recommendations Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Jennifer C. Davidson, Dimitar Karadzhov, Graham Wilson
Cost-effective and user-friendly, mobile phone-assisted methods have remained underutilized in qualitative social science research. The scarce methodological guidance, together with recruitment and ethical challenges, has arguably stifled advancements in this area. COVID-19 exposed the need to better equip researchers with the expertise and tools to conduct remote research effectively. In 2020, we
-
Poverty and Wealth without a Ladder? An Appraisal of the Stages of Progress Method among Agro–Pastoralists in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Edward G. J. Stevenson, Jil Molenaar, David-Paul Pertaub, Dessalegn Tekle
Is it possible to measure wealth and poverty across settings while being faithful to local understandings? The stages of progress method (SoP) attempts to do this by building ladders of wealth in locally relevant terms and using these in comparisons across groups. This approach is potentially useful among pastoralist populations where monetary income and standard asset inventories may be misleading
-
Human Observers Are Accurate in Judging Personal Relationships in Real-life Settings: A Methodological Tool for Human Observational Research Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Lasse S. Liebst, Lasse Baggesen, Kasper L. Dausel, Virginia Pallante, Marie R. Lindegaard
One limitation of the naturalistic observation method is that it is understudied how accurately personal relationships may be judged by observers in real-life settings. To assess this judgment accu...
-
Case-to-factor Ratios and Model Specification in Qualitative Comparative Analysis Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2023-03-19 Alrik Thiem, Lusine Mkrtchyan
Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is an empirical research method that has gained some popularity in the social sciences. At the same time, the literature has long been convinced that QCA is p...
-
Pre-incentive Efficacy in Survey Response Rates in a Large Prospective Military Cohort Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Teresa M. Powell, Toni Rose Geronimo-Hara, Laura E. Tobin, Carrie J. Donoho, Beverly D. Sheppard, Jennifer L. Walstrom, Rudolph P. Rull, Dennis J. Faix, for the Millennium Cohort Study
Declining survey response rates concern researchers aiming to ensure study validity. This article tested the effectiveness of multiple pre-incentives on increasing survey response to the Millennium...
-
Duo-ethnographic Methods: A Feminist Take on Collaborative Research Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Jessica Hardin, Abril Saldaña-Tejeda, Alyshia Gálvez, Emily Yates-Doerr, Hanna Garth, Maggie Dickinson, Megan Carney, Natali Valdez
Duo-ethnography is a collaborative methodology in which participants juxtapose their experiences around a topic to parse multiple perspectives. It explicitly positions ethnographers as sources of i...
-
Applying Articulated Thought in Simulated Situations Methodology to Research Emotion Work in the Courtroom Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Alice Kirsten Bosma
Emotions are omnipresent in any court of law. In this short take, I suggest applying the Articulated Thought in Simulated Situations (ATSS) paradigm as a useful addition to supplement methodologies...
-
Verbalization of Rating Scales Taking Account of Their Polarity Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2023-01-15 Natalja Menold
While numerical bipolar rating scales may evoke positivity bias, little is known about the corresponding bias in verbal bipolar rating scales. The choice of verbalization of the middle category may...
-
Accuracy of a Photo-based Smartphone Application to Assess Salivary Cortisol Sampling Time in Adolescents Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Cheng K. Fred Wen, Stefan Schneider, Marc J. Weigensberg, Bas Weerman, Donna Spruijt-Metz
Accurate assessment of saliva sampling time is essential for studies that collect cortisol sample in ambulatory settings. This study examined the sampling time assessed by user-submitted photos via...
-
Daily and Momentary Variability in Sleep, Stress, and Well-being Data in Two Samples of Health Care Workers Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Soomi Lee, Christina X. Mu, Rhitik Joshi, Arooj Khan
Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) can capture how sleep, stress, and well-being are related within individuals. However, the use of EMA involves participant burden, which may be a major barrier...
-
Effects of Prepaid Postage Stamps and Postcard Incentives in a Web Survey Experiment Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Georg-Christoph Haas, Marieke Volkert, Monika Senghaas
Even small monetary incentives, e.g., a one-dollar bill in a postal invitation letter, can increase the response rate in a web survey. However, in the euro currency area, the smallest amount of mon...
-
What about the Less IT Literate? A Comparison of Different Postal Recruitment Strategies to an Online Panel of the General Population Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Barbara Felderer, Jessica M. E. Herzing
Even though the proportion of individuals who are not equipped to participate in online surveys is constantly decreasing, many surveys face an under-representation of individuals who do not feel IT...
-
Are Voter Rolls Suitable Sampling Frames for Household Surveys? Evidence from India Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Ruchika Joshi, Jeffery McManus, Karan Nagpal, Andrew Fraker
We examine the use of publicly available voter rolls for household survey sampling as an alternative to household listings or field-based sampling methods. Using voter rolls for sampling can save m...
-
“Are You …”: An Examination of Incomplete Question Stems in Self-administered Surveys Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Nestor Hernandez, Kristen Olson, Jolene D. Smyth
Questionnaire designers are encouraged to write questions as complete sentences. In self-administered surveys, incomplete question stems may reduce visual clutter but may also increase burden when ...
-
Comparing Readability Measures and Computer‐assisted Question Evaluation Tools for Self‐administered Survey Questions Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Rachel Stenger, Kristen Olson, Jolene D. Smyth
Questionnaire designers use readability measures to ensure that questions can be understood by the target population. The most common measure is the Flesch-Kincaid Grade level, but other formulas e...
-
Can Recall Data Be Trusted? Evaluating Reliability of Interview Data on Traditional Multilingualism in Highland Daghestan Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Michael Daniel, Alexey Koshevoy, Ilya Schurov, Nina Dobrushina
In this article, we address the issue of reliability of quantitative data on multilingualism of the past obtained as recall data. More specifically, we investigate whether the interviewees’ assessm...
-
The Issue of Noncompliance in Attention Check Questions: False Positives in Instructed Response Items Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Henning Silber, Joss Roßmann, Tobias Gummer
Attention checks detect inattentiveness by instructing respondents to perform a specific task. However, while respondents may correctly process the task, they may choose to not comply with the inst...
-
A Comparison of Three Designs for List-style Open-ended Questions in Web Surveys Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Tanja Kunz, Katharina Meitinger
Although list-style open-ended questions generally help us gain deeper insights into respondents’ thoughts, opinions, and behaviors, the quality of responses is often compromised. We tested a dynam...
-
Conditional Pop-up Reminders Reduce Incidence of Rounding in Web Surveys Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Rainer Schnell, Sarah Redlich, Anja S. Göritz
Frequency of behaviors or amounts of variables of interest are essential topics in many surveys. The use of heuristics might cause rounded answers, resulting in the increased occurrence of end-digi...
-
A Critical Approach to Interviewing Academic Elites: Access, Trust, and Power Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Yali Liu, Louisa Buckingham
To date, research on elite interviews has primarily focused on political or business settings in European and Anglo-American contexts. In this study, we examine the procedures involved in conductin...
-
The Devil Is in the Details: A Randomized Experiment Assessing the Effect of Providing Examples in a Survey Question across Countries Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Eva Aizpurua, Gianmaria Bottoni, Rory Fitzgerald
Despite the widespread use of examples in survey questions, very few studies have examined their impact on survey responses, and the evidence is mainly based on data collected in the United States ...
-
Improving Sampling Probability Definitions with Predictive Algorithms Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Matthew Jannetti, Amy Carroll-Scott, Erikka Gilliam, Irene Headen, Maggie Beverly, Félice Lê-Scherban
Place-based initiatives often use resident surveys to inform and evaluate interventions. Sampling based on well-defined sampling frames is important but challenging for initiatives that target subp...
-
Effects of Question Characteristics on Item Nonresponse in Telephone and Web Survey Modes Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-08-28 Oliver Lipps, Gian-Andrea Monsch
Telephone surveys face more and more criticism because of decreasing coverage and increasing costs, and the risk of producing socially desirable answers. Consequently, survey administrators conside...
-
Ethnographic Methods for Identifying Cultural Concepts of Distress: Developing Reliable and Valid Measures Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Alexandra Brewis, H. J. François Dengah, II, William W. Dressler, Bonnie N. Kaiser, Brandon A. Kohrt, Emily Mendenhall, Seth Sagstetter, Lesley J. Weaver, Katya X. Zhao
We review ethnographic methods that allow researchers to assess distress in a culturally sensitive manner. We begin with an overview of standardized biomedical and psychological approaches to asses...
-
A Machine Learning Model Helps Process Interviewer Comments in Computer-assisted Personal Interview Instruments: A Case Study Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Catherine Billington, Gonzalo Rivero, Andrew Jannett, Jiating (Kristin) Chen
During data collection, field interviewers often append notes or comments to a case in open text fields to request updates to case-level data. Processing these comments can improve data quality, bu...
-
Concurrent Mixed Modes: Response Quality, Speed, and Cost Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-06-10 Vidal Díaz de Rada
This article presents the results of a general population study that used three different modes of data collection administered sequentially. The study began with a letter that contained the link t...
-
Challenges and Opportunities to Recruiting and Engaging with Gay Male Latino Sexual Assault Survivors Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Daniel Jacobson López, Antonio García, Rafael Engel, John L. Jackson, Jr.
There is a paucity of empirical literature examining the experiences of gay Latino sexual assault survivors in the United States, due in part because there is little research focused on how to effe...
-
Are Scale Direction Effects the Same in Different Survey Modes? Comparison of a Face-to-Face, a Telephone, and an Online Survey Experiment Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Ádám Stefkovics
A number of previous studies have shown that the direction of rating scales may affect the distribution of responses. There is also considerable evidence that the cognitive process of answering a s...
-
Short Take: Sampling from Transnational Social Fields Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 José Luis Molina, Miranda J. Lubbers, Marian-Gabriel Hâncean, Ignacio Fradejas-García
Thanks to the latest developments in network-oriented sampling, it is now possible to measure “transnational social fields,” or emergent social structures that connect places or regions in differen...
-
Using Attributes of Survey Items to Predict Response Times May Benefit Survey Research Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Stefan Schneider, Haomiao Jin, Bart Orriens, Doerte U. Junghaenel, Arie Kapteyn, Erik Meijer, Arthur A. Stone
Researchers have become increasingly interested in response times to survey items as a measure of cognitive effort. We used machine learning to develop a prediction model of response times based on...
-
Sister-girl Talk: A Community-based Method for Group Interviewing and Analysis Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-04-24 Charlayne F. Mitchell, Ersula J. Ore, Amber Wutich, Cindi SturtzSreetharan, Alexandra Brewis, Olga I. Davis
Leveraging ground-breaking work of Black feminist scholars alongside established techniques of focus group and community-based participatory research, we explain sister-girl talk as a novel method for collecting and analyzing group interview data with Black women. We outline the procedures for consultation, facilitation and preliminary analysis of the sister-girl talk method.
-
Short Take: Collecting Data from a Vulnerable Population during the COVID-19 Pandemic Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Sela R. Harcey, Robin Gauthier, Kelly L. Markowski, Jeffrey A. Smith
Conducting field research with a vulnerable population is difficult under the most auspicious conditions, and these difficulties only increase during a pandemic. Here, we describe the practical challenges and ethical considerations surrounding a recent data collection effort with a high-risk population during the COVID-19 pandemic. We detail our strategies related to research design, site selection
-
Are You…? Asking Questions on Sex with a Third Category in Germany Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-03-25 Patricia Hadler, Cornelia E. Neuert, Verena Ortmanns, Angelika Stiegler
A question asking for respondents’ sex is one of the standard sociodemographic characteristics collected in a survey. Until now, it typically consisted of a simple question (e.g., “Are you…?”) with two answer categories (“male” and “female”). In 2019, Germany implemented the additional sex designation divers for intersex people. In survey methodology, this has led to an ongoing discussion how to include
-
Using Systematic Social Observations to Measure Crime Prevention through Environmental Design and Disorder: In-situ Observations, Photographs, and Google Street View Imagery Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Marlies Sas, Thom Snaphaan, Lieven J.R. Pauwels, Koen Ponnet, Wim Hardyns
This study focuses on the use of systematic social observations (SSO) to measure crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and disorder. To improve knowledge about measurement issues in small area research, SSO is conducted by means of three different methods: in-situ, photographs, and Google Street View (GSV) imagery. By evaluating the methodological quality of the observation methods
-
Short Take: Sorting at a Distance: Q Methodology Online Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Katie Meehan, Lourdes Ginart, Kerri Jean Ormerod
This article presents design principles and practical steps for web-based Q methodology surveys. Drawing on the experience of two online Q studies, we discuss theoretical concerns, sort and survey design, software programs, and issues in researcher–participant engagement. We argue that opening Q methodology to online modes of data collection is important to capture greater diversity in social perspectives
-
How Did We Develop a Photographic Guide of Biodiverse Food Plants to Support Food Consumption Studies? Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-02-27 Ially D. O. Ribeiro, Natalia A. D. N. Batista, Severina Carla V. Cunha Lima, Michelle Cristine M. Jacob
This short take explains how we developed a photographic guide for assessing biodiversity in food consumption studies with taxonomy accuracy. To build the guide, we followed the “Guidelines on Assessing Biodiverse Foods in Dietary Intake Surveys” of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. As far as we know, this is the first tool developed in Brazil to support dietary surveys
-
Strategies for Establishing Dependability between Two Qualitative Intrinsic Case Studies: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Ilyana Janis
Dependability (also known as consistency) is one of four criteria in rigor and trustworthiness in qualitative research. In this article, the process of establishing consistency is discussed through the lenses of constructivism and interpretivism, as the observed social reality is viewed as epistemologically counter-intuitive. Two strategies were used to establish consistency. First, method, source
-
Advance Translation—The Remedy to Improve Translatability of Source Questionnaires? Results of a Think-Aloud Study Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Brita Dorer
Advance translation is a method of source questionnaire development for multilingual survey projects to enhance translatability and (inter)cultural portability. The aim is to minimize translation issues in the final translation stage. I empirically tested the results of a previously conducted advance translation in a think-aloud study and analyzed the utterances made in a mixed-method approach, calculating
-
Short Take: Do Postal Stamps (Still) Lead to a Higher Response Rate? An Empirical Test in Belgium Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Marc Hooghe, Dieter Stiers
When conducting a postal survey, a traditional recommendation is to use paper postage stamps instead of an automated postage system, to make sure that invitations have a more personal and attractive appearance. In this research note, we investigate whether this traditional recommendation is still valid. In the autumn of 2020, a postal survey was conducted among high-school teachers in Belgium strictly
-
Combining Conceptual Frameworks on Maternal Health in Indigenous Communities—Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping Using Participant and Operator-independent Weighting Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Iván Sarmiento, Anne Cockcroft, Anna Dion, Sergio Paredes-Solís, Abraham De Jesús-García, David Melendez, Anne Marie Chomat, Germán Zuluaga, Alba Meneses-Rentería, Neil Andersson
A recurring issue in intercultural research is whose knowledge informs conceptualization and design of projects or interventions. Fuzzy cognitive mapping uses arrows and weights to represent stakeholder knowledge on causal relationships and can generate composite theories to inform research and action. Cognitive mapping is accessible across different cultures, but participant weighting is not always
-
Nonverbal Behavior in Face-to-face Survey Interviews: An Analysis of Interviewer Behavior and Adequate Responding Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Brooke Foucault Welles, Hanyu Sun, Peter V. Miller
We examine relationships between interviewers’ nonverbal behaviors and adequate responding in face-to-face survey interviews. We videotaped professional interviewers administering face-to-face survey interviews and coded them for three interviewer nonverbal behaviors: smiling, nodding, and direct gaze. These nonverbal interviewer behaviors were associated with significant increases in the frequency
-
The Effects of Prompt Interventions on Web Survey Response Rate and Data Quality Measures Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Hanyu Sun, Andrew Caporaso, David Cantor, Terisa Davis, Kelly Blake
Previous survey research has found that prompt interventions for speeding and straightlining were effective at reducing these undesirable response behaviors in web surveys. However, the effects of prompt interventions on data quality measures are mixed, and it is unclear how prompt interventions affect key survey estimates. We conducted an experiment on prompt interventions using the National Cancer
-
Item Context Effects Are Relevant for Monitoring Evaluative Well-being: Replication of Previous Work and Mitigation Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Arthur A. Stone, Marta Walentynowicz, Stefan Schneider, Doerte U. Junghaenel, Joan E. Broderick, Angus Deaton
To ensure the accuracy of self-reported data, it is important to reduce potential sources of bias such as the unwanted influence of prior questions on subsequent questions, the so-called item context effect. This article attempts to replicate the finding that evaluative subjective well-being was affected by a preceding item, a question about the political atmosphere in the country; it also examines
-
A Community-Partnered Approach to Social Network Data Collection for a Large and Partial Network Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Maxwell Izenberg, Ryan Brown, Cora Siebert, Ron Heinz, Aida Rahmattalabi, Phebe Vayanos
In the small town of Sitka, Alaska, frequent and often catastrophic landslides threaten residents. One challenge associated with disaster preparedness is access to timely and reliable risk information. As with many small but diverse towns, who or what is a trustworthy source of information is often contested. To help improve landslide communication in Sitka, we used a community-partnered approach to
-
Participatory Modeling: A Methodology for Engaging Stakeholder Knowledge and Participation in Social Science Research Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Barbara Quimby, Melissa Beresford
Participatory modeling (PM) is an engaged research methodology for creating analog or computer-based models of complex systems, such as socio–environmental systems. Used across a range of fields, PM centers stakeholder knowledge and participation to create more internally valid models that can inform policy and increase engagement and trust between communities and research teams. The PM process also
-
Using the Census Planning Database to Generate Differential Expected Yield Rates to Self-administered Mail Surveys Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-02-13 Taylor Lewis, Joseph McMichael
Expected yield rates are essential to a survey’s data collection plan, as they inform requisite sample sizes to meet the survey’s objectives. Given an overall expected yield rate for a self-administered mail survey, this short take describes a simple method for using the Census Planning Database to assign differential yield rates to lower-level geographies within the study area.
-
Infrequent Identity Signals, Multiple Correspondence, and Detection Risks in Audit Correspondence Studies Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Catherine Balfe, Patrick Button, Mary Penn, David J. Schwegman
Audit correspondence studies are field experiments that test for discriminatory behavior in active markets. Researchers measure discrimination by comparing how responsive individuals (“audited units”) are to correspondences from different types of people. This article elaborates on the tradeoffs researchers face between sending audited units only one correspondence and sending them multiple correspondences
-
Local and Transnational Identity, Positionality and Knowledge Production in Africa and the African Diaspora Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Kudus Oluwatoyin Adebayo, Emeka T. Njoku
How does shared identity between researcher and the researched influence trust-building for data generation and knowledge production? We reflect on this question based on two separate studies conducted by African-based researchers in sociology and political science in Nigeria. We advanced two interrelated positions. The first underscores the limits of national belonging as shorthand for insiderness
-
Scratch the Scratch-off: Testing Prepaid and Conditional Incentives with Postcard and Letter Invitations in a Web-push Design with an Address-based Sample Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-01-03 Philip S. Brenner, Trent D. Buskirk
We tested a novel extension to mailed invitations to a web-push survey, using a postcard invitation to deliver a scratch-off giftcode incentive similar to an instant-win lottery ticket. Scratch-off postcards were included as one of five conditions in randomized survey experiment varying two mailing types (letter and postcard) and three incentive types (prepaid cash, prepaid giftcodes, and conditional
-
A Web-based Event History Calendar Approach for Measuring Contraceptive Use Behavior Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Brady T. West, William G. Axinn, Mick P. Couper, Heather Gatny, Heather Schroeder
Event history calendars (EHCs) are frequently used in social measurement to capture important information about the time ordering of events in people’s lives and enable inference about the relationships of the events with other outcomes of interest. To date, EHCs have primarily been designed for face-to-face or telephone survey interviewing, and few calendar tools have been developed for more private
-
Biocultural Strategies for Measuring Psychosocial Stress Outcomes in Field-based Research Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2021-11-05 Alexandra Brewis, Barbara A. Piperata, H. J. François Dengah, II, William W. Dressler, Melissa A. Liebert, Siobhán M. Mattison, Rosalyn Negrón, Robin Nelson, Kathryn S. Oths, Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, Susan Tanner, Zaneta Thayer, Katherine Wander, Clarence C. Gravlee
The goal of assessing psychosocial stress as a process and outcome in naturalistic (i.e., field) settings is applicable across the social, biological, and health sciences. Meaningful measurement of biology-in-context is, however, far from simple or straightforward. In this brief methods review, we introduce theoretical framings, methodological conventions, and ethical concerns around field-collection
-
Evaluating the Performance of Five Asset-based Wealth Indices in Predicting Socioeconomic Position in Rural Bangladesh Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2021-06-08 Katherine Woolard, Shirajum Munira, Khaleda Jesmin, Daniel Hruschka
Social scientists have developed numerous asset-based wealth indices to assess and target socioeconomic inequalities globally. However, there are no systematic studies of the relative performance of these different measures as proxies for socioeconomic position. In this study, we compare how five asset-based wealth indices—the International Wealth Index (IWI), the Standard of Living portion of the
-
Community Concept Drawing: A Participatory Visual Method for Incorporating Local Knowledge into Conceptualization Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2021-05-18 Chesney McOmber, Katharine McNamara, Sarah L. McKune
Concepts can provide researchers and communities with common ground for communicating and building understandings about the world. However, researchers who engage with communities often encounter unexpected interpretations of concepts in the field. This article introduces Community Concept Drawing (CCD), a participatory visual method aimed at facilitating a deep understanding of how local communities
-
Agree or Disagree: Does It Matter Which Comes First? An Examination of Scale Direction Effects in a Multi-device Online Survey Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Carmen M. Leon, Eva Aizpurua, Sophie van der Valk
Previous research shows that the direction of rating scales can influence participants’ response behavior. Studies also suggest that the device used to complete online surveys might affect the susceptibility to these effects due to the different question layouts (e.g., horizontal grids vs. vertical individual questions). This article contributes to previous research by examining scale direction effects
-
Venue-based versus Geosocial Networking Application-based Recruitment of Young Men Who Have Sex with Men: An Examination of Feasibility Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Jeremy J. Gibbs, Dorian E. Traube, Jeremy T. Goldbach
Because of the high cost, venue-based probability sampling of young men who have sex with men (YMSM) is largely inaccessible to social researchers. The aim of this study is to compare the feasibility of implementing geosocial networking application-based (GSNA) and venue-based prob`ability sampling of young men who have sex with men. A cross-sectional survey conducted in Los Angeles in 2017 and 2018
-
Content Analysis and Predicting Survey Refusal: What Are Respondents’ Concerns about Participating in a Face-to-face Household Mental Health Survey? Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2021-04-21 Sanaa Hyder, Lisa Bilal, Zeina Mneimneh, Mohammad Talal Naseem, Edward DeVol, Maggie Aradati, Mona Shahab, Abdulrahman BinMuammar, Abdullah Al-Subaie, AbdulHameed Al-Habeeb, Yasmin Altwaijri
Previous studies suggest that refusals form the largest proportion of nonresponse for household surveys. As face-to-face household health surveys are uncommon in several countries, it might be advantageous for prospective surveys to preemptively tackle respondents’ refusal to survey participation. Using contact history data from the Saudi National Mental Health Survey, we examined the relationship
-
Examining the Impact of a Survey’s Email Timing on Response Latency, Mobile Response Rates, and Breakoff Rates Field Methods (IF 1.782) Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Ashley K. Griggs, Amanda C. Smith, Marcus E. Berzofsky, Christine Lindquist, Christopher Krebs, Bonnie Shook-Sa
The proportion of web survey responses submitted from mobile devices such as smartphones is increasing steadily. This trend presents new methodological challenges because mobile responses are often associated with increased breakoffs, which, in turn, can increase nonresponse bias. Using data from a survey of college students with more than 20,000 respondents, response patterns are examined to identify