Introduction

Webpage last modified: 2008-Oct-21

The Comparative Survey Design and Implementation (CSDI) Initiative has developed the Cross-Cultural Survey Guidelines to cover all aspects of the survey lifecycle in 15 chapters:

  1. Study, Organizational, and Operational Structure
  2. Tenders, Bids, and Contracts
  3. Ethical Considerations in Surveys
  4. Sample Design
  5. Questionnaire Design
  6. Translation
  7. Adaptation
  8. Survey Instrument Design
  9. Pretesting
  10. Interviewer Recruitment, Selection, and Training
  11. Data Collection
  12. Harmonization of Survey and Statistical Data
  13. Data Processing and Statistical Adjustment
  14. Dissemination of Survey and Statistical Data
  15. Assessing Quality for Cross-Cultural Surveys

The CSDI Guidelines Initiative is led by:

Beth-Ellen Pennell
Kirsten Alcser

Survey Research Center, University of Michigan

Janet Harkness

Survey Research and Methodology Program, University of Nebraska

The Guidelines were written by:

Kirsten Alcser
Ashley Bowers
Judi Clemens
Peter Granda
Sue Ellen Hansen
Frost Hubbard
Rachel Levenstein
Christina Lien
Zeina Mneimneh
Rachel Orlowski
Beth-Ellen Pennell

Survey Research Center; Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan

Janet Harkness

Survey Research and Methodology Program, University of Nebraska and GESIS

Ipek Bilgen
Ana Villar

Survey Research and Methodology Program, University of Nebraska

Rachel Caspar
Emilia Peytcheva

RTI International

The Guidelines were reviewed by:

Dorothee Behr
Achim Koch
Meinhard Moschner
Christof Wolf

GESIS

Pam Campanelli

Independent Consultant

Somnath Chatterji

World Health Organization

Rory Fitzgerald
Paul Kussumaul

European Social Survey

Steven Heeringa
Frauke Kreuter
Richard Valiant

Survey Research Center, University of Michigan and Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of Maryland

Kristin Miller

National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

José L. Padilla

Department of Methodology, University of Grenada

Alisú Schoua-Glusberg

Research Support Services

Eleanor Singer

Survey Research Center, University of Michigan

Gordon Willis

National Cancer Institute, U.S. National Institutes of Health

Christine Wilson

Heriot-Watt University

Tom W. Smith

National Opinion Research Center

Jare Struwig

Human Sciences Research Council

Bill Blyth

TNS Europe

Tim Johnson

University of Illinois, Chicago

Peter Mohler

University of Mannheim

The Guidelines would not be possible without the contributions of:

Gail Arnold

Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
Formatting and copy-editing

Shaw Hubbard

Independent Consultant
Formatting and copy-editing

Larry LaFerte

Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
Providing graphic design assistance

Ruth Shamraj

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan
Providing graphic design assistance

Tricia Blanchard

Survey Research Center, University of Michigan
Programming and maintaining the website

Population and Ecology Laboratory in Nepal

Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Providing the Napalese images for the site logo

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