The Response Scale Transformation Project

In this project we have reviewed existing methods used to homogenize data and developed several new methods for dealing with this diversity in survey questions on the same subject. The project is a spin-off from the World Database of Happiness, the main aim of which is to collate and make available research findings on the subjective enjoyment of life and to prepare these data for research synthesis. The first methods we discuss were proposed in the book ‘Happiness in Nations’ and which were used at the inception of the World Database of Happiness. Some 10 years later a new method was introduced: the International Happiness Scale Interval Study (HSIS). Taking the HSIS as a basis the Continuum Approach was developed. Then, building on this approach, we developed the Reference Distribution Method.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-zx5-p7pe
PID https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-6s-v0av
Metadata Access https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:158893
Provenance
Creator Jonge, J.J. de ORCID logo; Veenhoven, R. (ORCID: 0000-0002-5159-393X)
Publisher Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Contributor Jonge, J.J. de; Veenhoven, R.; Dr. J.J. de Jonge (Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organisation, Erasmus University Rotterdam); Prof. dr. R. Veenhoven (Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organisation, Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Publication Year 2020
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0; http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
OpenAccess true
Representation
Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format .dat (SPSS); .odt; .ods; .por
Discipline Psychology; Social and Behavioural Sciences