8 Writing Items
8.1 Overview
This chapter presents a description of types of items in general use in surveys that allow us to capture the information we want. First, we provide examples of some of the many different types of items, review issues in writing items, give examples of resources we might use in finding existing items, and conclude with tips for writing items and sources of more information.
As described in Chapter 1, a survey may contain items related to different areas, including an attitude or opinion, biographic and demographic information, and events and circumstances. These items may be stated as questions or statements. They may ask for low inference factual information such as age (requiring ...
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