Effects of survey administration mode on response profiles are predictable, and robust across countries: Evidence from 29 countries using machine-learning models.

ABSTRACT: Survey data collection can be administered in different modes, including face-to-face interviews and self-completion modes such as paper-and-pencil or web-based surveys. Do data collected in these different modes reliably differ across countries? We address this question using responses from 145,361 respondents in 29 countries to 46 questions in Rounds 8-10 of the European Social Survey (ESS), a large-scale social research project that conducts cross-national surveys in Europe and whose data has been used in thousands of publications. The ESS is typically administered in face-to-face interviews, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic data from nine countries in the tenth round were collected using self-completion methods. In line with previous findings demonstrating differences between administr

SUBMITTER: Vishkin A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12431400 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature