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This chapter outlines the tasks of the respondents. Particular attention must be paid to ensuring that the survey questions can be understood by the respondents. It must also be ensured that the response categories of the sociodemographic questions are derived from the respondents’ cultural context.
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Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, J.H.P., Warner, U. (2018). Respondents. In: Sociodemographic Questionnaire Modules for Comparative Social Surveys. SpringerBriefs in Population Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90209-8_9
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