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Stability of School‐age Children's Survey Responses
Author(s) -
Holaday Bonnie,
TurnerHenson Anne,
Swan James
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1991.tb00653.x
Subject(s) - panel survey , stability (learning theory) , psychology , developmental psychology , demography , sociology , computer science , machine learning
School‐age children may have low levels of response stability on many questions asked in survey research. This article incorporates evidence from a three‐wave panel study into a discussion of some possible causes of low stability. In general, children's responses to questions of fact were more stable than responses to questions of opinion. The findings suggest that when questionnaires are carefully developed, school‐age children are reliable respondents.