Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Date (from‐to) : 2016/04 -2019/03
Author : SAKAGAMI Takayuki; UEHARA Syunsuke; IDENO Takashi; SATO Fumiko; MORII Masahiro
We conducted integrated research on respondents' behaviors in surveys. It includes literature review, experimental Web surveys, and laboratory experiments on the response quality or the problematic responses to questionnaires. Through the literature review, we elucidated the history of rating scales as well as the problems that we face in designing self-administered questionnaires for paper and Web surveys. In the laboratory experiments, we analyzed the answering behaviors of the respondents with the help of the paradata on their eye-movement, trajectories of the mouse cursor, and their response time. In the experimental Web surveys, we examined the effects of the following factors: sampling methods, question ordering, the number of alternatives, the layouts of the alternatives and buttons on the screen, and the respondents' cognitive capacity of numeric operation. We also proposed and tested several procedures for detecting problematic responses and found that they worked effectively.