Choosing the Number of Categories in Agree-Disagree Scales

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 73-97

  Revilla, Melanie A ^a   Saris, Willem E ^a   Krosnick, Jon A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agree disagree scales; measurement errors; MTMM; number of response categories; quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891874224     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: 15528294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124113509605     Document Type: Article

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