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Winner of the 2006 The Descartes Prize for excellence in collaborative scientific research . Written by members of the design and implementation team for the groundbreaking European Social Survey (ESS), reviews current best practice in the conduct of cross-national, cross-cultural quantitative research

In recent years there have been important improvements in many areas of cross-national survey
methodology. Yet one of the most central areas, questionnaire design, has received less attention. This
article introduces, illustrates and evaluates a questionnaire design and documentation template that
aims to better structure and document cross-national questionnaire design, largely unchartered territory
to date. The article will demonstrate how the template conceptually structures the process of
design, facilitates communication between the multiple actors involved and brings cross-national pretesting
findings together into a coherent framework. The ways in which the template makes the measurement
aims clear and the design process transparent, are also explored.

High response rates have traditionally been considered as one of the main indicators of survey quality. Obtaining high response rates is sometimes difficult and expensive, but clearly plays a beneficial role in terms of improving data quality. It is becoming increasingly clear, however, that simply boosting response to achieve a higher response rate will not in itself eradicate nonresponse bias. In this book the authors argue that high response rates should not be seen as a goal in themselves, but rather as part of an overall survey quality strategy based on random probability sampling and aim

This paper examines the feasibility of ex-post harmonisation strategies using European Values Study (EVS) Wave 5 (2017-2020) and European Social Survey (ESS) Round 9 (2018-2019) data across 17 countries. The study shows an empirical assessment of the comparability of four items measuring religious behaviours (belonging to a religious denomination at present/in the past, religious services attendance, and praying), captured in both surveys. The novelty of this paper lies in the analytical comparison of religiosity indicators that are rarely assessed from a comparative perspective. The harmonisation strategy was based upon several analytical techniques that seek to determine similarities and differences between the selected items in terms of (a) their validity, by examining their correlations with a set of sociodemographic and substantive correlates, (b) their distributions, supplemented by visual comparisons and relevant statistical tests, and (c) item non-substantive shares. The findings pointed to the most consistency among the partial correlations, where individual religiosity produced the most differences between the surveys. Distributions produced the most discrepancies that also corresponded to less similarity across variable categories as gauged by Duncan's index. This paper is descriptive and exploratory in its aim. It can be taken as a jumping-off point for future research where the time series of these two surveys, and potentially others, can be examined across aggregate levels (e.g. birth cohorts, countries).