Field MethodsPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/1525822X211069657
Katie Meehan, Lourdes Ginart, K. J. Ormerod
{"title":"Short Take: Sorting at a Distance: Q Methodology Online","authors":"Katie Meehan, Lourdes Ginart, K. J. Ormerod","doi":"10.1177/1525822X211069657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X211069657","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents design principles and practical steps for web-based Q methodology surveys. Drawing on the experience of two online Q studies, we discuss theoretical concerns, sort and survey design, software programs, and issues in researcher–participant engagement. We argue that opening Q methodology to online modes of data collection is important to capture greater diversity in social perspectives and geographies.","PeriodicalId":48060,"journal":{"name":"Field Methods","volume":"34 1","pages":"82 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47013942","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 : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/1525822X221077393
A. Stone, M. Walentynowicz, Stefan Schneider, Doerte U. Junghaenel, J. Broderick, Angus Deaton
{"title":"Item Context Effects Are Relevant for Monitoring Evaluative Well-being: Replication of Previous Work and Mitigation","authors":"A. Stone, M. Walentynowicz, Stefan Schneider, Doerte U. Junghaenel, J. Broderick, Angus Deaton","doi":"10.1177/1525822X221077393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X221077393","url":null,"abstract":"To ensure the accuracy of self-reported data, it is important to reduce potential sources of bias such as the unwanted influence of prior questions on subsequent questions, the so-called item context effect. This article attempts to replicate the finding that evaluative subjective well-being was affected by a preceding item, a question about the political atmosphere in the country; it also examines manipulations that could mitigate the impact of the context-inducing item on well-being. Study 1 used a sample of 4,500 participants recruited from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk; it examined the effect of three manipulations based on adding buffer questions or adding text to reorient participants’ attention. A context effect was found, and one manipulation mitigated the context effect. Study 2 used a nationally representative sample (n = 906); it only replicated the context effect. These results reaffirm the importance of carefully considering item context effects in survey research.","PeriodicalId":48060,"journal":{"name":"Field Methods","volume":"34 1","pages":"36 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46914053","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 : 2022-01-04DOI: 10.1177/1525822X211051574
K. Adebayo, E. Njoku
{"title":"Local and Transnational Identity, Positionality and Knowledge Production in Africa and the African Diaspora","authors":"K. Adebayo, E. Njoku","doi":"10.1177/1525822X211051574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X211051574","url":null,"abstract":"How does shared identity between researcher and the researched influence trust-building for data generation and knowledge production? We reflect on this question based on two separate studies conducted by African-based researchers in sociology and political science in Nigeria. We advanced two interrelated positions. The first underscores the limits of national belonging as shorthand for insiderness, while the second argues that when shared national/group identity is tensioned other intersecting positions and relations take prominence. We also show that the researched challenge and resist unequal power relations through interview refusal or by evading issues that the researcher considers important, but the participant perceives as intrusive. We shed light on the vagaries, overlaps, and similarities in the dynamics of belonging and positionality in researching Africans in and outside Africa as home-based researchers. Our contribution advances the understanding of field dynamics in the production of local and cross-border knowledge on Africa/Africans.","PeriodicalId":48060,"journal":{"name":"Field Methods","volume":"35 1","pages":"18 - 32"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47083529","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 : 2022-01-03DOI: 10.1177/1525822X211069640
P. Brenner, T. Buskirk
{"title":"Scratch the Scratch-off: Testing Prepaid and Conditional Incentives with Postcard and Letter Invitations in a Web-push Design with an Address-based Sample","authors":"P. Brenner, T. Buskirk","doi":"10.1177/1525822X211069640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X211069640","url":null,"abstract":"We tested a novel extension to mailed invitations to a web-push survey, using a postcard invitation to deliver a scratch-off giftcode incentive similar to an instant-win lottery ticket. Scratch-off postcards were included as one of five conditions in randomized survey experiment varying two mailing types (letter and postcard) and three incentive types (prepaid cash, prepaid giftcodes, and conditional giftcodes). Invitations were sent to a sample of 17,808 addresses in Boston, Massachusetts, recruiting for a new online panel study of city residents. We report response rates and costs for each condition. Findings suggest that letters achieve higher response rates than postcards and are more cost effective overall. We also find that conditional incentives achieve higher response rates and are more cost effective, although conflating factors do not permit clear inferences. Notably, the novel scratch-off postcard condition achieved the lowest response rate and the highest costs per completed survey.","PeriodicalId":48060,"journal":{"name":"Field Methods","volume":"34 1","pages":"20 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42879676","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 : 2022-01-01Epub Date: 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1177/1525822x211069637
Brady T West, William G Axinn, Mick P Couper, Heather Gatny, Heather Schroeder
{"title":"A Web-Based Event History Calendar Approach for Measuring Contraceptive Use Behavior.","authors":"Brady T West, William G Axinn, Mick P Couper, Heather Gatny, Heather Schroeder","doi":"10.1177/1525822x211069637","DOIUrl":"10.1177/1525822x211069637","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Event history calendars (EHCs) are frequently used in social measurement to capture important information about the time ordering of events in people's lives, and enable inference about the relationships of the events with other outcomes of interest. To date, EHCs have primarily been designed for face-to-face or telephone survey interviewing, and few calendar tools have been developed for more private, self-administered modes of data collection. Web surveys offer benefits in terms of both self-administration, which can reduce social desirability bias, and timeliness. We developed and tested a web application enabling the calendar-based measurement of contraceptive method use histories. These measures provide valuable information for researchers studying family planning and fertility behaviors. This study describes the development of the web application, and presents a comparison of data collected from online panels using the application with data from a benchmark face-to-face survey collecting similar measures (the National Survey of Family Growth).</p>","PeriodicalId":48060,"journal":{"name":"Field Methods","volume":"34 1","pages":"3-19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8966976/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44633356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Field MethodsPub Date : 2021-11-01DOI: 10.1177/1525822X211043027
A. Brewis, B. Piperata, H. Dengah, W. Dressler, Melissa A. Liebert, S. Mattison, R. Negrón, R. Nelson, K. Oths, Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, S. Tanner, Z. Thayer, K. Wander, C. Gravlee
{"title":"Biocultural Strategies for Measuring Psychosocial Stress Outcomes in Field-based Research","authors":"A. Brewis, B. Piperata, H. Dengah, W. Dressler, Melissa A. Liebert, S. Mattison, R. Negrón, R. Nelson, K. Oths, Jeffrey G. Snodgrass, S. Tanner, Z. Thayer, K. Wander, C. Gravlee","doi":"10.1177/1525822X211043027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X211043027","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of assessing psychosocial stress as a process and outcome in naturalistic (i.e., field) settings is applicable across the social, biological, and health sciences. Meaningful measurement of biology-in-context is, however, far from simple or straightforward. In this brief methods review, we introduce theoretical framings, methodological conventions, and ethical concerns around field-collection of markers of psychosocial stress that have emerged from 50 years of research at the intersection of anthropology and human biology. Highlighting measures of psychosocial stress outcomes most often used in biocultural studies, we identify the circumstances under which varied measures are most appropriately applied and provide examples of the types of cutting-edge research questions these measures can address. We explain that field-based psychosocial stress measures embedded in different body systems are neither equivalent nor interchangeable, but this recognition strengthens the study of stress as always simultaneously cultural and biological, situated in local ecologies, social–political structures, and time.","PeriodicalId":48060,"journal":{"name":"Field Methods","volume":"33 1","pages":"315 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43747021","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 : 2021-11-01Epub Date: 2021-03-22DOI: 10.1177/1525822x21998516
Brady T West, Sean Esteban McCabe
{"title":"Choices Matter: How Response Options for Survey Questions about Sexual Identity Affect Population Estimates of Its Association with Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use.","authors":"Brady T West, Sean Esteban McCabe","doi":"10.1177/1525822x21998516","DOIUrl":"10.1177/1525822x21998516","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study presents results from a randomized experiment in the 2015-2017 National Survey of Family Growth, where a large national sample of U.S. individuals aged 15-49 was randomly assigned to one of two different versions of a survey question about sexual identity (one with three response options, including heterosexual, gay/lesbian, and bisexual, and one adding the option \"something else\"). Analyses of changes in the associations of sexual identity with alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use across these treatments revealed evidence of significant differences in the associations that remained robust after adjusting for socio-demographics. The results suggest that when individuals choose their sexual identity from a more limited number of response options, the heterogeneity of the sexual identity subgroups increases, weakening estimated associations of sexual identity with these behaviors. Open-ended questions may therefore be necessary to measure sexual identity and estimate its associations with substance use behaviors accurately in surveys.</p>","PeriodicalId":48060,"journal":{"name":"Field Methods","volume":"33 4","pages":"335-354"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8651075/pdf/nihms-1690024.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39705131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Field MethodsPub Date : 2021-08-01Epub Date: 2021-01-20DOI: 10.1177/1525822X20985966
Amy Shanafelt, Claire Sadeghzadeh, Leah Chapman, Molly De Marco, Lisa Harnack, Susan Gust, Melvin Jackson, Caitlin Caspi
{"title":"Recruitment of Low-wage Workers for a Time-Sensitive Natural Experiment to Evaluate a Minimum Wage Policy: Challenges and Lessons Learned.","authors":"Amy Shanafelt, Claire Sadeghzadeh, Leah Chapman, Molly De Marco, Lisa Harnack, Susan Gust, Melvin Jackson, Caitlin Caspi","doi":"10.1177/1525822X20985966","DOIUrl":"10.1177/1525822X20985966","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Natural experiments are often used for answering research questions in which randomization is implausible. Effective recruitment strategies are well documented for observational cohort studies and clinical trials, unlike recruitment methods for time-sensitive natural experiments. In this time-sensitive study of the impact of a minimum wage policy, we aimed to recruit 900 low-wage workers in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Raleigh, North Carolina. We present our recruitment strategies, challenges, and successes for participant screening and enrollment of a difficult-to-reach population.</p>","PeriodicalId":48060,"journal":{"name":"Field Methods","volume":"33 3","pages":"268-286"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8651078/pdf/nihms-1672662.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39587108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Field MethodsPub Date : 2021-08-01Epub Date: 2021-02-11DOI: 10.1177/1525822X21989841
April Y Oh, Andrew Caporaso, Terisa Davis, Laura A Dwyer, Linda C Nebeling, Benmei Liu, Erin Hennessy
{"title":"Effect of incentive amount on US adolescents' participation in an accelerometer data collection component of a national survey.","authors":"April Y Oh, Andrew Caporaso, Terisa Davis, Laura A Dwyer, Linda C Nebeling, Benmei Liu, Erin Hennessy","doi":"10.1177/1525822X21989841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X21989841","url":null,"abstract":"Behavioral research increasingly uses accelerometers to provide objective estimates of physical activity. This study extends research on methods for collecting accelerometer data among youth by examining whether the amount of a monetary incentive affects enrollment and compliance in a mail-based accelerometer study of adolescents. We invited a subset of adolescents in a national web-based study to wear an accelerometer for seven days and return it by mail; participants received either $20 or $40 for participating. Enrollment did not significantly differ by incentive amount. However, adolescents receiving the $40 incentive had significantly higher compliance (accelerometer wear and return). This difference was largely consistent across demographic subgroups. Those in the $40 group also wore the accelerometer for more time than the $20 group on the first two days of the study. Compared to $20, a $40 incentive may promote youth completion of mail-based accelerometer studies.","PeriodicalId":48060,"journal":{"name":"Field Methods","volume":"33 3","pages":"219-235"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1525822X21989841","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39257996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Field MethodsPub Date : 2021-06-08DOI: 10.1177/1525822X211020650
K. Woolard, S. Munira, Khaleda Jesmin, D. Hruschka
{"title":"Evaluating the Performance of Five Asset-based Wealth Indices in Predicting Socioeconomic Position in Rural Bangladesh","authors":"K. Woolard, S. Munira, Khaleda Jesmin, D. Hruschka","doi":"10.1177/1525822X211020650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X211020650","url":null,"abstract":"Social scientists have developed numerous asset-based wealth indices to assess and target socioeconomic inequalities globally. However, there are no systematic studies of the relative performance of these different measures as proxies for socioeconomic position. In this study, we compare how five asset-based wealth indices—the International Wealth Index (IWI), the Standard of Living portion of the Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index (MPI-SL), the Poverty Probability Index (PPI), the Absolute Wealth Estimate (AWE), and the DHS Wealth Index (DHS)—predict benchmarks of socioeconomic position across 11 communities in rural Bangladesh. All indices were highly correlated. The IWI best explained variation in individual and community ranking of economic well-being, while the PPI best explained variation both between and within communities for total household wealth and a general measure of subjective social status.","PeriodicalId":48060,"journal":{"name":"Field Methods","volume":"34 1","pages":"108 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1525822X211020650","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42330695","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}