Abstract Self-rated health (SRH)—for example,“in general would you say your health is
excellent, very good, good, fair, or poor?”—is the most widely used measure of health across …

“Rapport” has been used to refer to a range of positive psychological features of an
interaction, including a situated sense of connection or affiliation between interactional …

We begin with a look back at the field to identify themes of recent research that we expect to
continue to occupy researchers in the future. As part of this overview, we characterize the …

Survey interviews are conducted to produce objective, accurate information in which
interviewers ask questions as worded and their discretionary speech is carefully managed …

Paradata can be collected at a variety of levels, resulting in a complex, hierarchical data
structure. This chapter describes a wide variety of types of paradata, the kinds of paradata …

Objectives This study aims to assess the impact of response option order and question order
on the distribution of responses to the self-rated health (SRH) question and the relationship …

Paradata for purposes of investigating and understanding measurement error include
response times, keystrokes, mouse clicks, behavior codes, vocal characteristics, and …

When Johannes van der Zouwen (2002) posed this question several years ago, he
answered that an analysis of interaction can tell us what problems the interactants have in …

While migrants are widely believed to be positively selected on health, there has been very
little empirical exploration of the actual health differential between migrants and non …

Self-rated health (SRH) is one of the most important social science measures of health. Yet
its measurement properties remain poorly understood. Most studies ignore the …