Data harmonization is a topic of growing importance to demographers, who increasingly
conduct domestic or international comparative research. Many self-reported survey items …

I use anchoring vignettes to show that, on data for eleven European countries, exposure to
episodes of hunger in childhood leads people to adopt lower subjective standards to …

Self-reporting of ICT knowledge and skills is commonly used in questionnaire surveys
among students and in job search situations to provide information about actual ICT …

The authors have studied heterogeneity in reporting behavior and its impact on the analysis
of self-reports about students' dishonest behavior in schools. Two hundred sixty-five …

Self‐reports are an indispensable source of information in education research but they are
often affected by heterogeneity in reporting behavior. Failing to correct for this heterogeneity …

Self-ratings might not be directly comparable in socio-economic groups because of the
presence of Differential Item Functioning (DIF) across individuals: survey respondents might …

Collection and analysis of self-reported information on an ordered Likert scale is ubiquitous
across the social sciences. Inference from such analyses is valid where the response scale …

Associations between personality and self-reported health problems may be biased by
reporting heterogeneity, that is, tendency to rate the severity of the same health problem …

Objective Anchoring vignettes appear with growing frequency in surveys of health and
aging, but little research investigates how to optimize their wording. This study …

Comparisons of subjective scale measures across countries can be distorted by the use of
different response thresholds in different countries. Anchoring vignettes are a survey tool …