Field MethodsPub Date : 2021-03-30DOI: 10.1177/1525822X21999160
Ashley K. Griggs, A. C. Smith, M. Berzofsky, C. Lindquist, C. Krebs, B. Shook‐Sa
{"title":"Examining the Impact of a Survey’s Email Timing on Response Latency, Mobile Response Rates, and Breakoff Rates","authors":"Ashley K. Griggs, A. C. Smith, M. Berzofsky, C. Lindquist, C. Krebs, B. Shook‐Sa","doi":"10.1177/1525822X21999160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X21999160","url":null,"abstract":"The proportion of web survey responses submitted from mobile devices such as smartphones is increasing steadily. This trend presents new methodological challenges because mobile responses are often associated with increased breakoffs, which, in turn, can increase nonresponse bias. Using data from a survey of college students with more than 20,000 respondents, response patterns are examined to identify which days and times the survey invitation and reminder emails were most likely to produce nonmobile responses. The findings provide guidance on the optimal timing for recruiting college student sample members via email to reduce their likelihood of responding from a mobile device, and potentially, breaking off.","PeriodicalId":48060,"journal":{"name":"Field Methods","volume":"33 1","pages":"253 - 267"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1525822X21999160","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48811050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Field MethodsPub Date : 2021-03-11DOI: 10.1177/1525822X21997231
A. Cernat, J. Sakshaug
{"title":"Interviewer Effects in Biosocial Survey Measurements","authors":"A. Cernat, J. Sakshaug","doi":"10.1177/1525822X21997231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X21997231","url":null,"abstract":"Increasingly surveys are using interviewers to collect objective health measures, also known as biomeasures, to replace or supplement traditional self-reported health measures. However, the extent to which interviewers affect the (im)precision of biomeasurements is largely unknown. This article investigates interviewer effects on several biomeasures collected in three waves of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP). Overall, we find low levels of interviewer effects, on average. This nevertheless hides important variation with touch sensory tests being especially high with 30% interviewer variation, and smell tests and timed balance/walk/chair stands having moderate interviewer variation of around 10%. Accounting for contextual variables that potentially interact with interviewer performance, including housing unit type and presence of a third person, failed to explain the interviewer variation. A discussion of these findings, their potential causes, and their implications for survey practice is provided.","PeriodicalId":48060,"journal":{"name":"Field Methods","volume":"33 1","pages":"236 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1525822X21997231","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41817250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Field MethodsPub Date : 2021-03-04DOI: 10.1177/1525822X21993966
A. Young, Francisco Espinoza, C. Dodds, K. Rogers, Rita Giacoppo
{"title":"Adapting an Online Survey Platform to Permit Translanguaging","authors":"A. Young, Francisco Espinoza, C. Dodds, K. Rogers, Rita Giacoppo","doi":"10.1177/1525822X21993966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X21993966","url":null,"abstract":"This article concerns online data capture using survey methods when the target population(s) comprise not just of several different language-using groups, but additionally populations who may be multilingual and whose total language repertoires are commonly employed in meaning-making practices—commonly referred to as translanguaging. It addresses whether current online data capture survey methods adequately respond to such population characteristics and demonstrates a worked example of how we adapted one electronic data capture software platform (REDCap) to present participants with not just multilingual but translanguaging engagement routes that also encompassed multimodal linguistic access in auditory, orthographic, and visual media. The study population comprised deaf young people. We share the technical (coding) adaptations made and discuss the relevance of our work for other linguistic populations.","PeriodicalId":48060,"journal":{"name":"Field Methods","volume":"33 1","pages":"388 - 404"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1525822X21993966","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49605969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Field MethodsPub Date : 2021-02-17DOI: 10.1177/1525822X20983984
C. Prell, Christine D. Miller Hesed, Katherine J. Johnson, M. Paolisso, Jose D. Teodoro, E. V. Van Dolah
{"title":"Transdisciplinarity and Shifting Network Boundaries: The Challenges of Studying an Evolving Stakeholder Network in Participatory Settings","authors":"C. Prell, Christine D. Miller Hesed, Katherine J. Johnson, M. Paolisso, Jose D. Teodoro, E. V. Van Dolah","doi":"10.1177/1525822X20983984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X20983984","url":null,"abstract":"Participatory research engages a transdisciplinary team of stakeholders in all aspects of the research process. Such engagement can lead to shifts in the research design, as well as who is considered a participant. We detail our experiences of studying an evolving stakeholder network in the context of a 2.5-year transdisciplinary, participatory project. We show how participation leads to shifts in the network boundary overtime and how a transdisciplinary effort was needed to retrospectively redefine the network boundary. Through tacking back and forth between ethnographic insights, research aims, and modeling assumptions, the team eventually reached agreement on what determined network membership and how to code network members according to their timing and level of participation. Our account advances literature on boundary and modeling approaches to shifting, evolving networks by demonstrating how participatory transdisciplinarity can be both a driver of, and solution to, capturing the complexity of evolving networks.","PeriodicalId":48060,"journal":{"name":"Field Methods","volume":"33 1","pages":"405 - 416"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1525822X20983984","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41929023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Field MethodsPub Date : 2021-02-11DOI: 10.1177/1525822X21992162
L. Weaver, N. Henderson, C. Hadley
{"title":"The Social Meaning of Food Consumption Behaviors in Rural Brazil: Agreement and Intracultural Variation","authors":"L. Weaver, N. Henderson, C. Hadley","doi":"10.1177/1525822X21992162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X21992162","url":null,"abstract":"Food insecurity (FI) is often assessed through experienced-based measures, which address the number and extent of coping strategies people employ. Coping indices are limited because, methodologically, they presuppose that people engage coping strategies uniformly. Ethnographic work suggests that subgroups experience FI quite differently, meaning that coping strategies might also vary within a population. Thus, whether people actually agree on FI coping behaviors is an open question. This article describes methods used to test whether there was a culturally agreed on set of coping behaviors around FI in rural Brazilian majority-female heads of household, and to detect patterned subgroup variation in that agreement. We used cultural consensus and residual agreement analyses on freelist and rating exercise data. This process could be applied as a first step in developing experience-based measures of FI sensitive to intragroup variation, or to identify key variables to guide qualitative analyses.","PeriodicalId":48060,"journal":{"name":"Field Methods","volume":"33 1","pages":"372 - 387"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1525822X21992162","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43425191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Field MethodsPub Date : 2021-02-11DOI: 10.1177/1525822X21991281
H. Vonková, Jan Hrabák, K. Kráľová, Ondrej Papajoanu
{"title":"Developing a Framework for the Examination of Anchoring Vignette Assumptions Using Cognitive Interviews: A Demonstration in the ICT Skills Domain","authors":"H. Vonková, Jan Hrabák, K. Kráľová, Ondrej Papajoanu","doi":"10.1177/1525822X21991281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X21991281","url":null,"abstract":"Self-assessment measures are commonly used in questionnaire surveys. However, one of the problems with self-reports is that they may be prone to differences in scale usage among respondents. The anchoring vignette method addresses this issue. It relies on two assumptions: response consistency and vignette equivalence. Here we aim to develop a framework for the examination of these assumptions using cognitive interviews and demonstrate it in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) skills domain. First, we develop new anchoring vignettes describing various ICT skill domains. Second, we examine both assumptions using cognitive interviews with students who are studying different fields. Our analysis shows that the assumptions are indeed not adhered to, especially the assumption of vignette equivalence. Third, we develop a general framework for the examination of the method’s assumptions.","PeriodicalId":48060,"journal":{"name":"Field Methods","volume":"33 1","pages":"355 - 371"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1525822X21991281","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43364310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Field MethodsPub Date : 2021-02-04DOI: 10.1177/1525822X21989843
M. Smith, Rohini Pahwa
{"title":"Special Considerations in Social Network Interviewing and Mapping with Vulnerable Populations","authors":"M. Smith, Rohini Pahwa","doi":"10.1177/1525822X21989843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X21989843","url":null,"abstract":"This short take describes the process of enhancing social network interviews with qualitative inquiry to facilitate participant recall, contextualize participant–alter relationships, and increase cultural responsiveness with populations with cognitive impairments. The authors illustrate this process, including the use of a qualitative interviewing name generator, with an example of a mixed-methods project exploring community experiences with adults with serious mental illnesses.","PeriodicalId":48060,"journal":{"name":"Field Methods","volume":"33 1","pages":"424 - 430"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1525822X21989843","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43599045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Field MethodsPub Date : 2021-02-03DOI: 10.1177/1525822X20985629
Julia Jerke, David Johann, H. Rauhut, K. Thomas, Antonia Velicu
{"title":"Handle with Care: Implementation of the List Experiment and Crosswise Model in a Large-scale Survey on Academic Misconduct","authors":"Julia Jerke, David Johann, H. Rauhut, K. Thomas, Antonia Velicu","doi":"10.1177/1525822X20985629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X20985629","url":null,"abstract":"This research analyzes the effectiveness of the list experiment and crosswise model in measuring self-plagiarism and data manipulation. Both methods were implemented in a large-scale survey of academics on social norms and academic misconduct. As the results lend little confidence about the effectiveness of the methods, researchers are best advised to avoid them or, at best, to handle them with care.","PeriodicalId":48060,"journal":{"name":"Field Methods","volume":"34 1","pages":"69 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1525822X20985629","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49648166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Field MethodsPub Date : 2021-01-20DOI: 10.1177/1525822X20987073
K. Ellis-Davies, Sheina Lew‐Levy, Eleanor Fleming, A. Boyette, T. Baguley
{"title":"Demonstrating the Utility of Egocentric Relational Event Modeling Using Focal Follow Data from Congolese BaYaka Children and Adolescents Engaging in Work and Play","authors":"K. Ellis-Davies, Sheina Lew‐Levy, Eleanor Fleming, A. Boyette, T. Baguley","doi":"10.1177/1525822X20987073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X20987073","url":null,"abstract":"Temporal aspects of child and adolescent time allocation in diverse cultural settings have been difficult to model using conventional statistical techniques. A new statistical approach, Egocentric Relational Event Modelling (EREM), allows for the simultaneous modelling of activity frequency, duration, and sequencing. Here, EREM is applied to a focal follow dataset of Congolese BaYaka forager child and adolescent play and work activities. Results show that, as children age, they engage in less frequent and extended play bouts and more frequent and extended work bouts. Bout frequency and duration were a more sensitive measure for early sex differences than overall time allocation. Sequential patterns of work and play suggest that these activities have short-term energetic trade-offs. This article demonstrates that EREM can reveal stable and variable patterns in child development.","PeriodicalId":48060,"journal":{"name":"Field Methods","volume":"33 1","pages":"287 - 304"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1525822X20987073","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44088539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Field MethodsPub Date : 2021-01-20DOI: 10.1177/1525822X20987331
Caroline Lenette, J. Gardner
{"title":"Short Take: Walking Interviews with Refugee-background Women","authors":"Caroline Lenette, J. Gardner","doi":"10.1177/1525822X20987331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X20987331","url":null,"abstract":"Walking interviews generate contextualized dialogs and place-based narratives prompted by sites and routes. We used walking interviews with three refugee-background women in Australia to find out what the act of walking could reveal about notions of home and broader narratives of forced migration. We used a participatory approach to privilege women’s perspectives as co-creators of new knowledge on the topic.","PeriodicalId":48060,"journal":{"name":"Field Methods","volume":"33 1","pages":"305 - 312"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1525822X20987331","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46740992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}