The Effect of Survey Design on Extreme Response Style: Rating Job Satisfaction

Luisa Corrado and Majlinda Joxhe

No 365, CEIS Research Paper from Tor Vergata University, CEIS

Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between survey rating scale and Extreme Response Style (ERS) using experimental data from Understanding Society (Innovation Panel 2008), where a self-assessment questionnaire measuring job satisfaction uses two alternative (7 and 11 points) rating options. Our results suggests that when shifting from a shorter to a longer scale, the survey design generates a tendency to choose response scales at the extreme of the distribution, thus creating a misleading quantification of the variable of interest. The experimental design of the data enables us to test our hypothesis using a non-linear estimation approach where age, gender and education level are shown to affect ERS.

Keywords: Survey Design; Extreme Response Style; Job Satisfaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 C93 J28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2016-02-08, Revised 2016-02-08
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