DOI: 10.7802/1795
title: Open-ended answers to cognitive probes - from the CICOM study
title: Open-ended answers to cognitive probes - from the CICOM study

description: Answers to cognitive probes implemented in (cross-national) web surveys ("web probing")
(1) Replication of closed-ended items on attitudes towards immigrants from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP), addition of a follow-up probe:
Immigrants increase crime rates.
Immigrants are generally good for Germany’s economy.
Immigrants take jobs away from people who were born in Germany.
Immigrants improve German society by bringing in new ideas and cultures. 
Probe after each item (split): Which type of immigrants were you thinking of when you answered the question?

The study and results are described in detail here:
Braun, Michael, Dorothée Behr, and Lars Kaczmirek. 2013. "Assessing cross-national equivalence of measures of xenophobia: evidence from probing in web surveys." International Journal of Public Opinion Research 25 (3): 383-395. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/eds034. 

(2) Replication of item on civil disobedience from the ISSP, addition of a follow-up probe: 
How important is it that citizens may engage in acts of civil disobedience when they oppose government actions? (Not at all important 1 ... Very important 7)
Probe: What ideas do you associate with the phrase "civil disobedience"? Please give examples. 

The study and results are described in detail here:
Behr, Dorothée, Michael Braun, Lars Kaczmirek, and Wolfgang Bandilla. 2014. "Item comparability in cross-national surveys: results from asking probing questions in cross-national web surveys about attitudes towards civil disobedience." Quality & Quantity 48 (1): 127-148. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11135-012-9754-8.
description: Answers to cognitive probes implemented in (cross-national) web surveys ("web probing")
(1) Replication of closed-ended items on attitudes towards immigrants from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP), addition of a follow-up probe:
Immigrants increase crime rates.
Immigrants are generally good for Germany’s economy.
Immigrants take jobs away from people who were born in Germany.
Immigrants improve German society by bringing in new ideas and cultures. 
Probe after each item (split): Which type of immigrants were you thinking of when you answered the question?

The study and results are described in detail here:
Braun, Michael, Dorothée Behr, and Lars Kaczmirek. 2013. "Assessing cross-national equivalence of measures of xenophobia: evidence from probing in web surveys." International Journal of Public Opinion Research 25 (3): 383-395. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/eds034. 

(2) Replication of item on civil disobedience from the ISSP, addition of a follow-up probe: 
How important is it that citizens may engage in acts of civil disobedience when they oppose government actions? (Not at all important 1 ... Very important 7)
Probe: What ideas do you associate with the phrase "civil disobedience"? Please give examples. 

The study and results are described in detail here:
Behr, Dorothée, Michael Braun, Lars Kaczmirek, and Wolfgang Bandilla. 2014. "Item comparability in cross-national surveys: results from asking probing questions in cross-national web surveys about attitudes towards civil disobedience." Quality & Quantity 48 (1): 127-148. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11135-012-9754-8.
description: Web-basiert - Standardisierter Selbstausfüller
description: Fixed form self-administered questionnaire: Web-based
description: Respondents from the online access panel respondi in Germany, and their international partners in Spain and Denmark (citizens of the respective countries aged 18-65).
description: Respondents from the online access panel respondi in Germany, and their international partners in Spain and Denmark (citizens of the respective countries aged 18-65).
description: Quota sample: 
A net sample of about 500 respondents in each country (Spain, Denmark)/region (East/West Germany) was targeted;
quotas for age (18–30, 31–50, and 51–65 years), gender, and education (lower vs. higher education) were used.
Details in the afore mentioned publications.