Abstract
Questionnaires are used to elicit from individuals a broad array of objective information as well as subjective information about their thoughts and perceptions. This article focuses on a single topic about questionnaires - how to elicit respondents' subjective expectations of future events. Subjective expectations are being measured with increasing frequency, yet the social and behavioral sciences have not formed a common view on how expectations should be conceptualized and measured. A particularly intriguing controversy, described in this article, concerns the relative merits of verbal and probabilistic forms of questioning.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition |
| Publisher | Elsevier Inc. |
| Pages | 776-780 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780080970875 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780080970868 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 26 2015 |
Keywords
- Attitudinal research
- Decision making
- Questionnaires
- Subjective expectations
- Subjective phenomena
- Subjective probabilities
- Survey research
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences(all)
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Manski, C. (2015). Questionnaires: Collection of Subjective Expectations Data. In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition (pp. 776-780). Elsevier Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.44046-8