Even though a generic questionnaire exists as a blueprint for all countries, in certain situations there are deviations from the generic versions. In general, there are two different kinds of deviations: country specific deviations within a wave and deviations in the generic version across the waves.
1) Deviations within a wave
There are the “country specific deviations” within each wave, i.e. for some questions there are deviations between the generic version of the questionnaire and the translated country versions. These deviations apply to the text of the questionnaire, the categories or the interviewer instructions.
By clicking on the following links you will get an overview of the deviations for each country sorted by the modules of the questionnaire, for wave 1 and wave 2, respectively.
Country specific deviations within wave 1
Country specific deviations within wave 2
For details on a specific question you can click directly on the different links in the online overview:
By clicking on the name of the variable you will get an overview of these questions for all countries in which deviations are known.
If you are interested in only one country, you can click on the shortcut of the name of the country in each module to get an overview of all deviations in this country.
Furthermore you can click directly on one question for one specific country in the schedule.
If you are interested in an overview of multiple questions and countries, you can easily use the “Export” button on the top of every module to create an xls-table for each module for all countries separately in MS Excel.
The list of the deviations consists of at least three columns. The first column is the generic version of the questionnaire. The second contains the same question in the translated version(s), and in the third column you find a back translation for some questions. The point “Explanatory notes” includes an explanation of the country specific deviation.
2) Deviations between the waves
At this moment, this section is still under construction. However, for the correspondence across waves the basic rule holds that variables are identically named if the question has not changed. Thus, for only very few variables different generic versions exist across waves.
Deviations between Wave 1 and Wave 2
Legend for the overview tables:
- Question does not apply/is not asked
T Text/Translation of question
C Categories/Cards
IW Interviewer Instructions
R Routing
x Other
cs Very country specific questions e.g. education
Please be aware that all tables are still under construction and will be updated permanently. In case you notice deviations in the data that are not represented here, please contact us at share
mea.uni-mannheim.de.