Evaluating the Cognitive Interviewing Reporting Framework (CIRF) by rewriting a Dutch pretesting report of a European health survey questionnaire

Methodology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 104-112

  Vis Visschers, Rachel ^a   Meertens, Vivian ^a  

^a STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive interviewing; Cognitive Interviewing Reporting Framework; Pretest; Questionnaire Laboratory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883538481     PISSN: 16141881     EISSN: 16142241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-2241/a000072     Document Type: Review

References (19)

1. Arksey, H., & Knight, P. (1999). Interviewing for social scientists. London, UK: Sage.
2. Boeije, H. R., & Willis, G. (2013). The Cognitive Interviewing Reporting Framework (CIRF): Towards the harmonization of cognitive testing reports. Methodology, 9, 87-95. doi: 10.1027/1614-2241/a000075
3. Brancato, G., Macchia, S., Murgia, M., Signore, M., Simeoni, G., Blanke, K., Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, J. (2006). Handbook of recommended practices for questionnaire development and testing in the European statistical system. Luxembourg: Eurostat.
4. Dewar, A., Woodgate-Jones, G., Wilmot, A., Betts, P., & Hand, C. (2005). Evaluation of modules for the European health interview survey (EHIS). UK: Office for National Statistics.
5. Dutch Data Protection Act. (2000). Retrieved from http://www.dutchdpa.nl/ Pages/en-ind-wetten-wbp-wbp.aspxl
6. European Statistics Code of Practice adopted by the Statistical Programme Committee. (2011, 15 October), Retrieved from http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/ portal/page/portal/quality/code-of-practice
7. Eurostat. (2007a). European health interview survey. Background and rationale of the questions. Luxemburg: European Commission.
8. Eurostat. (2007b). Grant agreement for an action: Support for the implementation of the European health interview survey (EHIS). Agreement number: 35100.2007.001-2007.513.
9. Fowler, F. J., & Cannell, Ch. F. (1996). Using behavioural coding to identify cognitive problems with survey questions. In N. Schwarz & S. Sudman (Eds.), Answering Questions. Methodology for Determining Cognitive and Communicative Processes in Survey Research. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
10. Giesen, D., Meertens, V., Vis-Visschers, R., & Beukenhorst, D. (2010). Methods series: Theme: Questionnaire development, Statistics Netherlands internal document. Retrieved from www.cbs.nl/methods
11. Nielsen, J., & Landauer, T. K. (1993). A mathematical model of the finding of usability problems. In Proceedings of ACM INTERCHI'93 conference (pp. 206-213). Amsterdam, the Netherlands: ACM Press.
12. Oksenberg, L., Cannell, C., & Kalton, G. (1991). New strategies for pre-testing survey questions. Journal of Official Statistics, 7, 349-365.
13. Quality Declaration of Statistics Netherlands. (2011). Retrieved from www.cbs.nl/enGB/menu/organisatie/kwaliteitsverklaring/default.htm
14. Scientific Institute of Public Health. (2006). EHSM Dutch report on cognitive testing. Brussels, Belgium, Internal document.
15. Snijkers, G. (2002). Cognitive laboratory experiences: On pretesting computerised questionnaires and data quality (Doctoral thesis). Statistics Netherlands/Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
16. Statistics Netherlands Act. (2012) Retrieved from www.cbs.nl/NR/ rdonlyres/BBD8113D-7EE5-4BE4-887985253B31882/0/statlawen.pdf
17. Tourangeau, R., Rips, L. J., & en Rasinski, K. (2000). The psychology of survey response. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
18. Vis-Visschers, R., Morren, M., Meertens, V., & Arends-Tóth, J. (2008) Cognitive test of the health care module and the health determinants module of the European Health Interview Survey. Heerlen, The Netherlands: Statistics Netherlands.
19. Willis, G. (2005). Cognitive interviewing: A tool for improving questionnaire design. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.