PART I – Setting the Stage
Chapter 1 – Comparative Survey Methodology
Chapter 2 – Equivalence, Comparability, and Methodological Progress
PART II – Questionnaire Development
Chapter 3 – Designing Questionnaires for Multipopulation Research
Chapter 4 – Creating Questions and Protocols for an International Study of Ideas About Development and Family Life
Chapter 5 – Managing the Cognitive Pretesting of Multilingual Survey Instruments: A Case Study of Pretesting of the U.S. Census Bureau Bilingual Spanish/English Questionnaire
Chapter 6 – Cognitive Interviewing in Non-English Languages: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
PART III – Translation, Adaptation, and Assessment
Chapter 7 – Translation, Adaptation, and Design
Chapter 8 – Evaluation of a Multistep Survey Translation Process
Chapter 9 – Developments in Translation Verification Procedures in Three Multilingual Assessments: A Plea for an Integrated Translation and Adaptation Monitoring Tool
PART IV – Culture, Cognition, and Response
Chapter 10 – Cognition, Communication, and Culture: Implications for the Survey Response Process
Chapter 11 – Cultural Emphasis on Honor, Modesty, or Self-Enhancement: Implications for the Survey-Response Process
Chapter 12 – Response Styles and Culture
PART V – Key Process Components and Quality
Chapter 13 – Quality Assurance and Quality Control in Cross-National Comparative Studies
Chapter 14 – Sampling Designs for Cross-Cultural and Cross-National Survey Programs
Chapter 15 – Challenges in Cross-National Data Collection
Chapter 16 – A Survey Process Quality Perspective on Documentation
Chapter 17 – Harmonizing Survey Data
PART VI – Nonresponse
Chapter 18 – The Use of Contact Data in Understanding Cross-National Differences in Unit Nonresponse
Chapter 19 – Item Nonresponse and Imputation of Annual Labor Income in Panel Surveys from a Cross-National Perspective
PART VII – Analyzing Data
Chapter 20 – An Illustrative Review of Techniques for Detecting Inequivalences
Chapter 21 – Analysis Models for Comparative Surveys
Chapter 22 – Using Polytomous Item Response Theory to Examine Differential Item and Test Functioning: The Case of Work Ethic
Chapter 23 – Categorization Errors and Differences in the Quality of Questions in Comparative Surveys
Chapter 24 – Making Methods Meet: Mixed Design in Cross-Cultural Research
PART VIII – Global Survey Programs
Chapter 25 – The Globalization of Survey Research
Chapter 26 – Measurement Equivalence in Comparative Surveys: the European Social Survey (ESS)—From Design to Implementation and Beyond
Chapter 27 – The International Social Survey Programme: Annual Cross-National Surveys Since 1985
Chapter 28 – Longitudinal Data Collection in Continental Europe: Experiences from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
Chapter 29 – Assessment Methods in IEA’s TIMSS and PIRLS International Assessments of Mathematics, Science, and Reading
Chapter 30 – Enhancing Quality and Comparability in the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)
Chapter 31 – The Gallup World Poll