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Sources of Interactional Problems in a Survey of Racial/Ethnic Discrimination

Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Cross-cultural variability in respondent processing of survey questions may bias results from multiethnic samples. We analyzed behavior codes, which identify difficulties in the interactions of respondents and interviewers, from a discrimination module contained within a field test of the 2007 California Health Interview Survey. In all, 553 (English) telephone interviews yielded 13,999 interactions involving 22 items. Multilevel logistic regression modeling revealed that respondent age and several item characteristics (response format, customized questions, length, and first item with new response format), but not race/ethnicity, were associated with interactional problems. These findings suggest that item function within a multi-cultural, albeit English language, survey may be largely influenced by question features, as opposed to respondent characteristics such as race/ethnicity.
DOI: 10.1093/ijpor/edu024
Authors: T. P. Johnson, S. Shariff-Marco, G. Willis, Y. I. Cho, N. Breen, G. C. Gee, N. Krieger, D. Grant, M. Alegria, V. M. Mays, D. R. Williams, H. Landrine, B. Liu, B. B. Reeve, D. Takeuchi, N. A. Ponce
Institutions: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cancer Prevention Institute of California, University of California, Los Angeles, East Carolina University, University of Illinois Chicago, Stanford University, National Cancer Institute, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Harvard University, Stanford Medicine, Boston College
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2333877000
FWCI: 1.083
Cites: 15
Cited by: 9
Related to: 10