Publications and working documents on the development of SQP
Saris, W. E., Oberski, D., & Weber, W. (2022). The quality of survey questions for continuous latent variables: Your guide to the SQP database and predictions. Independently published, Amazon.
Survey Quality Predictor (2015). The history and the basic publications in the development of SQP. Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. [PDF]
Saris, W. E., & Gallhofer, I. N. (2014). Design, Evaluation, and Analysis of Questionnaires for Survey Research (2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Saris, W. E. (2013). The prediction of question quality: the SQP 2.0 software. In B. Kleiner, I. Renschler, B. Wernli, P. Farago, & D. Joye (Eds.), Understanding Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences (pp. 135-144). Zurich: Seismo Press.
Saris, W. E., Oberski, D., Revilla, M., Zavala-Rojas, D., Lilleoja, L., Gallhofer, I., and Gruner, T. (2011). The development of the program SQP 2.0 for the prediction of the quality of survey questions. RECSM Working Paper 24. [PDF]
Saris, W. E., & Gallhofer, I. N. (2007). Design, Evaluation, and Analysis of Questionnaires for Survey Research. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Publications applying or mentioning SQP
Repke, L., & Benet-Martínez, V. (2018). The (diverse) company you keep: Content and structure of immigrants' social networks as a window into intercultural relations in Catalonia. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 49(6), 924–944. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022117733475
Fraumann, G. (2017). Valuation of altmetrics in research funding. University of Tampere.
Lilleoja, L. (2017). The internal and external validity of the theory of basic human values. Tallin University.
Pirralha, A. (2017). The Link Between Political Participation and Life Satisfaction: A Three Wave Causal Analysis of the German SOEP Household Panel. Social Indicators Research, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1661-x
Smith, T. W. (2017). Conference Presentation of "Optimizing Questionnaire Design in Cross- National and Cross-Cultural Surveys" at QDET2 in Miami, Florida. (I. Tomescu-Dubrow & D. Joshua Kjerulf, Eds.), Harmonization: Newsletter on Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences, 2(2), 27-28.
Eikemo, T. A., Bambra, C., Huijts, T., & Fitzgerald, R. (2016). The First Pan-European Sociological Health Inequalities Survey of the General Population: The European Social Survey Rotating Module on the Social Determinants of Health. European Sociological Review, 1-17. http://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcw019
Maitland, A., & Presser, S. (2016). How accurately do different evaluation methods predict the reliability of survey questions? Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 4, 362-381. http://doi.org/10.1093/jssam/smw014
Maslov, A. (2016). Measuring the Performance of the Police: The Perspective of the Public. Sécuité publique Canada. Ottawa, Canada.
Oberski, D. L. (2016). Questionnaire Science. In M. R. Alvarez & L. Atkeson (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Polling and Polling Methods. Oxford University Press. http://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190213299.013.21
Pirralha, A. (2016). The relationship between political participation and life satisfaction: causal and contextual analysis. Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Revilla, M., Saris, W. E., & SQP-team. (2016). Quality of Survey Data: How to Estimate It and Why It Matters. (I. Tomescu-Dubrow & D. Joshua Kjerulf, Eds.), Harmonization: Newsletter on Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences, 2(1), 2-4.
Revilla, M., Zavala-Rojas, D.,& Saris, W. E. (2016). Creating a good question: How to use cumulative experience. In C. Wolf, D. Joye, T. W. Smith,& Yang-Chih Fu (Eds.), The SAGE-Handbook of Survey Methodology (pp. 236-254). SAGE.
Saris, W. E.,& Revilla, M. (2016). Correction for measurement errors in survey research: necessary and possible. Social Indicators Research, 127(3), 1005-1020. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-015-1002-x
Winstone, L., Widdop, S.,& Fitzgerald, R. (2016). Constructing the Questionnaire: The Challenges of Measuring Attitudes toward Democracy across Europe. In M. Ferràn & H. Kriesi (Eds.), How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy (pp. 21-39). Oxford University Press. http://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198766902.003.0002
Zavala-Rojas, D. (2016). Measurement equivalence in multilingual comparative survey research. Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Bais, F., Schouten, B., Lugtig, P., Toepoel, Arends-Tóth, J., Douhou, S., … Vis, C. (2015). Can survey item characteristics relevant to mode-specific measurement error be coded reliably? Discussion paper/CSB (Vol. 22).
Lilleoja, L., & Saris, W. E. (2015). Does correction for measurement error have an effect on the structure and comparability of basic human values? Survey Research Methods, 9(3), 169-187. http://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2015.v9i3.6203
Moncagatta, P. (2015). Understanding support for democracy: What about democracy do citizens support? Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Revilla, M., & Ochoa, C. (2015). What are the links in a web survey between response time, quality and auto-evaluation of the efforts done? Social Science Computer Review, 33(1), 97-114. http://doi.org/10.1177/0894439314531214
Schmitz, L. (2015). Nationalkultur versus Berufskultur: Eine Kritik der Kulturtheorie und Methodik Hofstedes. transcript.
Slavec, A., & Vehovar, V. (2015). The role of word frequencies in detecting unfamiliar terms and their effect on response quality. Psihologija, 48(4), 327-344. http://doi.org/10.2298/PSI1504327S
Uppheim, I. H. (2015). Engasjerte arbeidarar på ressursorienterte arbeidsplassar: Ei undersøking av jobbressursar som tilfredsstillar behovet for autonomi, kompetanse og tilhøyrsle og samanhengen med jobbengasjement hos norske arbeidstakarar.. Universitetet in Bergen.
Weber, W. K.,& Saris, W. E. (2015). The relationship between issues and an individual's left-right orientation. Acta Política, 50, 193-213. http://doi.org/10.1057/ap.2014.5
Maitland, A. (2014). A comparison of ex-ante, laboratory, and field methods for evaluating survey questions. University of Maryland.
Schnaudt, C., Weinhardt, M., Fitzgerald, R.,& Liebig, S. (2014). The European Social Survey: Content, Design, and Research Potential. Schmollers Jahbuch, 134(4), 487-506. http://doi.org/10.3790/schm.134.4.487
Billiet, J. (2013). Quantitative methods with survey data in comparative research. In P. Kennett (Ed.), A handbook of comparative social policy (2nd ed., pp. 264-300). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Carrió Sala, M. (2013). Creació d'una nova metodologia multistakeholder per a l'amidament de la reputació corporativa a partir de l'anàlisi de les 5 metodologies de referència: Fortune AMAC, Fortune WMAC, Merco, Coeficient de Reputació Corporativa (CRQ) i RepTrack. Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Serrano Maíllo, A. (2013). Una evaluación de la versión modificada de Wikström de la escala de Grasmick y otros controlando por el error de medición siguiendo a Saris. In A. Serrano Maíllo & C. H. Birkbeck (Eds.), La generalidad de la teoría del autocontrol (pp. 187–242). Madrid: Estudios de Criminología y Política Criminal.
Vinck, D. (2013). Pour une reflexion sur les infrastructures de recherche en sciences sociales. Revue D'anthropologie Des Connaissances, 7(4), 993-1001. http://doi.org/10.3917/rac.021.0993
Weber, W. (2013). Behind Left and Right. The meaning of left-right orientation in Europe. Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Billiet, J., & Matsuo, H. (2012). Non-response and Measurement Error. In L. Gideon (Ed.), Handbook of Survey Methodology for the Social Sciences (pp. 149-178). New York: Springer-Verlag.
Oberski, D. L. (2012). Comparability of Survey Measurements. In L. Gideon (Ed.), Handbook of Survey Methodology for the Social Sciences (pp. 477-498). New York: Springer-Verlag. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3876-2_27
Straka, P. (2012). Metody testování dotazníků a možnost zapojení výsledků MTMM studií. Univerzita Karlova.
Stoop, I., & Harrison, E. (2012). Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys Using FTF. In L. Gideon (Ed.), Handbook of Survey Methodology for the Social Sciences (pp. 249-276). New York: Springer-Verlag. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3876-2_15
Trusinová, R. (2012). Program krátkých návštěv v centrech výzkumné kompetence projektu European Social Survey—zkušenost a výzva k podávání přihlášek. Czech Sociological Review, 48(1), 189–191.
Fitzgerald, R., Widdop, S., Gray, M., & Collins, D. (2011). Identifying sources of error in crossnational questionnaires: Application of an error source typology to cognitive interview data. Journal of Official Statistics, 27(4), 569-599.
Guillen, L., Coromina, L., & Saris, W. E. (2011). Measurement of Social Participations and its Place in Social Capital Theory. Social Indicators Research, 100(2), 331-350. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11205
Jackson, J., Bradford, B., Hough, M., Kuha, J., Stares, S., Widdop, S., … Galev, T. (2011). Developing European indicators of trust in justice. European Journal of Criminology, 8(4), 267–285. http://doi.org/10.1177/1477370811411458
van der Veld, W. M., & Saris, W. E. (2011). Causes of generalized social trust. In E. Davidov, P. Schmidt, & J. Billiet (Eds.), Cross-cultural analysis: Methods and applications (pp. 207-247). New York: Routledge.
Krosnick, J. A., & Presser, S. (2010). Question and Questionnaire Design. In P. V. Marsden & J. D. Write (Eds.), Handbook of Survey Research (2nd ed., pp. 263-313). Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Oberski, D. L., Saris, W. E., & Hagenaars, J. A. P. (2010). Categorization errors and differences in the quality of questions in comparative surveys. In J. A. Harkness, M. Braun, B. Edwards, T. P. Johnson, L. Lyberg, P. Mohler, & T. W. Smith (Eds.), Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts (pp. 435-453). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. http://doi.org/10.1002/9780470609927.ch23
Stoop, I., Billiet, J., Koch, A., & Fitzgerald, R. (2010). Improving Survey Response: Lessons Learned from the European Social Survey. John Wiley & Sons.
Coromina, L., & Saris, W. E. (2009). Quality of media use measurement. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 21(4), 424-450. http://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edp014
Jowell, R., & Eva, G. (2009). Happiness is not Enough: Cognitive Judgements as Indicators of National Wellbeing. Social Indicators Research, 91(3), 317-328. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11205
Coromina, L., Saris, W. E., & Oberski, D. L. (2008). The Quality of the Measurement of Interest in the Political Issues presented in the Media in the ESS. ASK. Research and Methods, 17, 7-38.
Oberski, D. L., Saris, W. E., & Hagenaars, J. A. P. (2007). Why are there differences in measurement quality across countries? In G. Loosveldt & Swyngedouw (Eds.), Measuring Meaningful Data in Social Research (pp. 281-300). Leuven: ACCO UITGEVERIJ.
Saris, W. E., van der Veld, W. M., & Gallhofer, I. N. (2004). Development and Improvement of Questionnaires Using Predictions of Reliability and Validity. In S. Presser, J. M. Rothgeb, M. P. Couper, J. T. Lessler, E. Martin, J. Martin, & E. Singer (Eds.), Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questionnaires (pp. 275-297). Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. http://doi.org/10.1002/0471654728.ch14
Van der Zouwen, J., & Smit, J. H. (2004). Evaluating Survey Questions by Analyzing Patterns of Behavior Codes and Question-Answer Sequences: A Diagnostic Approach, in Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questionnaires. In S. Presser, J. M. Rothgeb, M. P. Couper, J. T. Lessler, E. Martin, J. Martin, & E. Singer (Eds.), Methods for Testing and Evaluating Survey Questionnaires (pp. 109-130). Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. http://doi.org/10.1002/0471654728.ch6