[en] This paper explores the relationship between survey rating scale and Extreme Response Style (ERS) using experimental data from Understanding Society (Innovation Panel 2008), where a self-assessment questionnaire measuring job satisfaction uses two alternative (7 and 11 points) rating options. Our results suggests that when shifting from a shorter to a longer scale, the survey design generates a tendency to choose response scales at the extreme of the distribution, thus creating a misleading quantification of the variable of interest. The experimental design of the data enables us to test our hypothesis using a non-linear estimation approach where age, gender and education level are shown to affect ERS.
Disciplines :
Microeconomics
Author, co-author :
JOXHE, Majlinda ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Center for Research in Economic Analysis (CREA)
Corrado, Luisa; University of Rome Tor Vergata
Language :
English
Title :
The Effect of Survey Design on Extreme Response Style: Rating Job Satisfaction
Publication date :
February 2016
Publisher :
Centre for Economic and Int'l Studies University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy