Training course: Designing questionnaires for cross-cultural surveys

The first SERISS training course will be held on 24th-25th October 2016 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The course will be on Designing questionnaires for cross-cultural surveys instructed by Ana Villar (Centre for Comparative Social Surveys, City University London) and Dorothée Behr (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Mannheim).

By the end of the course participants will:

• be familiar with different approaches to organisation and implementation of cross-cultural questionnaire design;
• be familiar with different pre-testing techniques available for cross-cultural contexts;
• be familiar with aspects to take into account when producing questionnaire translations;
• be familiar with best practice in carrying out questionnaire translation and assessment;
• be able to better account for the needs of cross-cultural questionnaire design and translation in project proposals.

25 participants are invited to attend the course. There are no tuition fees.

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