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The comparability of measurements of attitudes toward immigration in the European Social Survey: exact versus approximate measurement equivalence

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2015
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Davidov, E., Cieciuch, J., Meuleman, B., Schmidt, P., Algesheimer, R., & Hausherr, M. (2015). The comparability of measurements of attitudes toward immigration in the European Social Survey: exact versus approximate measurement equivalence. Public Opinion Quarterly, 79(S1), 244–266. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfv008

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International survey datasets are analyzed with increasing frequency to investigate and compare attitudes toward immigration and to examine the contextual factors that shape these attitudes. However, international comparisons of abstract, psychological constructs require the measurements to be equivalent–i.e., they should measure the same concept on the same measurement scale. Traditional approaches to assessing measurement equivalence quite often lead to the conclusion that measurements are cross-nationally incomparable but have been

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79

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S1

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244

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266

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European Social Survey, approximate vs. exact measurement equivalence, attitudes toward immigration, cross-national research

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Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)

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English

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2015

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2015-05-27

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0033-362X

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This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Public Opinion Quarterly following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 79, Issue S1, 2015, Pages 244–266 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfv008.

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Davidov, E., Cieciuch, J., Meuleman, B., Schmidt, P., Algesheimer, R., & Hausherr, M. (2015). The comparability of measurements of attitudes toward immigration in the European Social Survey: exact versus approximate measurement equivalence. Public Opinion Quarterly, 79(S1), 244–266. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfv008

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