A cross-country and cross-time comparison of the human values measurements with the second round of the European social survey

Survey Research Methods

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-46

  Davidov, Eldad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Configural, metric, and scalar invariance; Cross country comparison; European social survey; Human values; Multiple group confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949506435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18643361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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