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Lau, Charles Q.; Sanders, Herschel; Lombaard, Ansie – Field Methods, 2019
Short message service (SMS or text messaging) surveys can collect data quickly and inexpensively. However, SMS surveys have space constraints that pose difficulties to questionnaire designers: Questions can only be 160 characters or less, surveys must be short, and many respondents use phones with small screens. In this article, we compare SMS and…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Design, Test Construction, Computer Mediated Communication
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Valente, Thomas W.; Dougherty, Leanne; Stammer, Emily – Field Methods, 2017
This study investigates potential bias that may arise when surveys include question items for which multiple units are elicited. Examples of such items include questions about experiences with multiple health centers, comparison of different products, or the solicitation of egocentric network data. The larger the number of items asked about each…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Surveys, Time