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The Practice of Cross-Cultural Cognitive Interviewing

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ID6369253
AuthorsG B Willis
Year2015
Volume79
IssueS1
Pages359-395
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePublic Opinion Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-362X • E-ISSN: 1537-5331
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/poq/nfu092
OpenAlexW2295647963
LanguageEN
Citations received38
References cited25

Cross-cultural cognitive interviewing (CCCI) has increasingly been practiced across a range of cultures, languages, and countries, in an effort to establish cross-cultural equivalence of survey questions and other materials, to detect sources of difficulties in answering survey questions for particular subgroups, and to detect problems related to translation from source to target languages. Although descriptions of such studies have proliferated in both the published and unpublished literatures, there has been little effort to reconcile discrepant views, approaches, and findings. The current synthesis reviews 32 CCCI studies located in peer-reviewed journals and books, along with key unpublished sources, to characterize these investigations in terms of their purpose, procedures, and findings. Based on a number of trends in this emergent field, conclusions are made concerning appropriate methods for cognitive testing of cross-cultural instruments, and recommendations are made for future practices that will serve to advance the CCCI field

Cognition · Cognitive interview · Cross-cultural · Equivalence (formal languages · Field (mathematics · Interview · Linguistics · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Competency in Health Care · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Mathematics · Psychology

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Unique citing works38
Citations per year4,22
Citation span2017 - 2026 (10)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 37

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