De plukkes ikke som blomster på en mark: Tendenser i kvantitativ metodelitteratur vedr. konstruktion og kvalitetssikring af surveydata

Henning Olsen: They are picked as flowers in a field: Tendencies in the literature on quantitative research methods and the quality assurance of survey data This article discusses the manner in which survey data should be constructed and quality ensured as recommended by authors of methodology literature. It is based on a textual analysis of English and Scandinavian literature on quantitative research methodology. The article explores issues such as: common sense proposals regarding the construction of questionnaires, recommendations concerning question construction based on research about respondents’ understanding of question of questions and information retrieval and recommendations relating to the carrying out of survey interviews. In addition the article discusses the question of procedural guidelines for ensuring the quality of survey data, e.g. cognitive laboratory interview and split sample experiments. Finally it raises the question as to whether the data constructing aspects of survey methodology are as standardized as usually assumed

Det mindst ringe spørgeskema?

The least inferior questionnaire? This article discusses strategies for the construction of questionnaires utilized in the implementation of survey investi¬gations in social research. The delinea¬tion of these strategies is based on a Da¬nish project about language comprehen¬sion and memory as causes of measure¬ment problems in sociological and politological survey investigations. The detailed results are expected to be published at the end of 1998. The project had three phases. The first phase consisted of text analyses of questionnaires from approximately 50 Danish social research surveys. The text analyses were based on theoretical con¬cepts from linguistics and cognition the¬ory. The second phase consisted of se¬manticcognitive interviews with 32 in¬formants from seven regions in Denmark and analysis of the interview tran¬scripts. These qualitative analyses were followed by a split sample analysis of the linguistic sensitivity of approxima¬tely 2000 adult Danes as a generator of measurement problems in survey in¬vestigations, which was based on mailed questionnaires. On the basis of these three phases new methodological stra¬tegies for the reduction of measurement problems in survey investigations have been developed

SOOP Data System Upgrades

Report on data and connectivity upgrading, documenting system improvements to integrate observing systems, improve network infrastructure, near-real-time delivery of data and best practice for integrated observations to provide data useful for Marine Services and other user

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in pregnancy and congenital malformations: population based cohort study

Objective To investigate any association between selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) taken during pregnancy and congenital major malformations