Identifying partisan ‘leaners’ in cross-national surveys
In 2022, we experimented with a new question in cross-national surveys to capture the international equivalent of U.S. partisan “leaners.”
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How we translate survey questions to be fielded around the world
A look at current best practices in survey questionnaire translation and how Pew Research Center applies these approaches.
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The pros and cons of using professional translators vs. Google Translate to analyze open-ended survey responses
Pew Research Center recently sought to translate more than 11,000 open-ended survey responses into English.
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Q&A: How Pew Research Center surveyed nearly 30,000 people in India
To represent the views of Indians from a wide range of backgrounds, we fielded our largest-ever single-country survey outside the U.S.
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Measuring caste in India
Despite the caste system’s significance in India, there is no consensus on what proportion of Indians belong to each caste category.
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The impact of survey mode on measuring public opinion in Italy
Using a “bridge survey,” we simultaneously fielded identical questions and response options via both in-person and telephone interviews.
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What different survey modes and question types can tell us about Americans’ views of China
Regardless of mode or measure, most Americans have a negative view of China – and opinions have become more unfavorable in recent years.
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Small changes in survey scales can matter when measuring political ideology in Europe
In this analysis, we compare two different ways of asking telephone survey respondents in Europe about their ideology.
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Analyzing international survey data with the pewmethods R package
Data from Pew Research Center’s annual Global Attitudes Survey is publicly available.
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