Drawing on data from two multitrait multimethod experiments carried out in the context of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), this paper identifies questionnaire designs that minimize measurement error in reports of subjective well-being. Among the survey instruments most often used to...

Soziale Erwünschtheit kann als Tendenz verstanden werden, scheinbar gesellschaftlich akzeptierte Antworten bei einer Befragung zu geben. Basierend auf den Analysen von Paulhus (1984) wird zwischen zwei Dimensionen unterschieden, der Selbst- und Fremdtäuschung. In Deutschland gibt es in der...

Incomplete data is a common problem of survey research. Recent work on multiple imputation techniques has increased analysts' awareness of the biasing effects of missing data and has also provided a convenient solution. Imputation methods replace non-response with estimates of the unobserved...

That partisanship is bounded. Almost every West German, East German and immigrant never supports one or both of the major parties and most people vary support for their party by claiming no partisan preference. Hardly anyone ever selects each of the parties at different points in time. Immediate...