| dc.contributor.author |
Geer, John Gray |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2010-05-03T19:41:35Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2010-05-03T19:41:35Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
1991 |
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| dc.identifier.citation |
This is a post-print of "Do Open-Ended Questions Measure 'Salient' Issues?" by John Geer from Public Opinion Quarterly 55:3, 360-370. Copyright © 1991 Oxford University Press. |
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| dc.identifier.issn |
0033-362X |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol55/issue3/index.dtl |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/4052 |
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| dc.description |
Originally published in Public Opinion Quarterly, v. 55, no. 3 (p. 360-370). |
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| dc.description.abstract |
Closed-ended questions dominate most interview schedules. Yet the almost exclusive use of this form did not arise because open-ended questions, its major competitor, proved to be weak indicators of public opinion. Instead, responses from open-ended questions proved more difficult and expensive to code and analyze than those from closed-ended questions. Although such practical concerns are important, the real task of survey researchers is to measure public opinion accurately. Using an experimental design, this article tests whether open-ended questions measure the important concerns of respondents' one of the long-claimed advantages of this format. The results, on balance, show that open-ended comments reflect such concerns, suggesting that pollsters may want to include more of these questions in their surveys of public opinion. |
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| dc.language.iso |
en_US |
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| dc.publisher |
Oxford University Press |
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| dc.subject |
Salient issues |
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| dc.subject |
Open-ended questions |
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| dc.subject.lcsh |
Public opinion polls -- Methodology |
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| dc.subject.lcsh |
Public opinion -- United States |
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| dc.subject.lcsh |
United States -- Politics and government -- Public opinion |
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| dc.title |
Do Open-Ended Questions Measure "Salient" Issues? |
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| dc.type |
Postprint |
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| dc.description.college |
College of Arts and Science |
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| dc.description.department |
Department of Political Science |
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| dc.publisher.uri |
http://www.oup.com/us/ |
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