Measurement equivalence in cross-national research

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 40, Issue , 2014, Pages 55-75

  Davidov, Eldad ^a   Meuleman, Bart ^c   Cieciuch, Jan ^b,d   Schmidt, Peter ^e,f   Billiet, Jaak ^c  

^a Chair of Sociology in particular of Modeling and Simulation CLU E6   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

^f JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross national comparisons; Measurement invariance; Subjective constructs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905220504     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-071913-043137     Document Type: Review

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