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3.4.2 Comparability of questions

Example 1: IALS test
Example describing survey translation error.


3.5.1. What happens when the results are questioned

Example 2: International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS)
A recent example that illustrates the political fallout from results that look implausible. .

3.5.1. What happens when the results are questioned

Example 3: Programme for International Student Achievement (PISA)
A recent example that illustrates the political fallout from results that look implausible. .

3.5.1. What happens when the results are questioned

Example 4: UK participation in PISA 2003
A recent example that illustrates the political fallout from results that look implausible.


3.7.1. Organising and documenting your analysis

Example 5: SPSS Syntax
An example of working with syntax - a programme specification for the analysis

3.8.2. Setting the context

Example 6: International Adult Literacy Survey
An example illustrating expectations based on distribution of related characteristics in the population

Example 7: How to produce a table showing - attitudes to citizens cheating on their taxes by country
TThis is a worked example using the ESS to produce a table showing the distribution of key characteristics for a selection of countries of interest with and without weights for attitudes to the statement "Citizens should not cheat on their taxes".


The University of Manchester; Mimas; ESRC; RDI

Countries and Citizens: Unit 3 Making cross-national comparisons using micro data by Siobhan Carey, Department for International Development is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence.