18 февраля в 15:45 (GMT+3) состоится очередной регулярный семинар Лаборатории сравнительных социальных исследований имени Р. Ф. Инглхарта. С докладом на тему “Do Online Surveys Help to Measure Liberal Attitudes in Conservative Contexts? A Comparison of Online and Face-to-Face Surveys in Russia” выступят Виолетта Корсунова (младший научный сотрудник ЛССИ) и Борис Соколов (старший научный сотрудник ЛССИ). 

Семинар пройдет онлайн. Ссылка на встречу в Zoom будет выслана после запроса по адресу lcsr.event@hse.ru.

The current project aims to compare the quality of data and the substantive results of the online survey “Value in Crisis” to the respective results of the World Value Survey wave 7 in Russia. Online surveys offer several advantages over traditional interviews, as they are low-cost, less time-consuming, and minimize the interviewer effects. The latter one is especially important since it makes online surveys an effective tool in gathering information about sensitive topics including value orientations, which may be invaluable when fieldwork is conducted in hostile, authoritarian, or conservative contexts where one may expect strong pressure on respondents to provide socially desirable responses. However, online surveys have their own shortcomings and limitations. In particular, they rarely use representative samples and therefore tend to provide biased estimates of various quantities of interest, such as mean scores on some attitudinal indicators or regression coefficients. The ViC survey provides a unique opportunity to test how the results of online and offline surveys can diverge in an authoritarian society, such as modern Russia, as its questionnaire is designed to resemble that of the WVS. To test the differences, we compare the distributions of the socio-demographic profiles of the respondents in the two surveys to each other and also to the results of the latest available Census data (from 2010). We found that the ViC sample is representative by age and gender; yet, it has fewer low-educated respondents and those living in the rural area. Along with it, the results indicate the presence of measurement invariance of choice and equality values between the surveys. Nevertheless, the mean values of both choice and equality values are greater in ViC in all socio-demographic groups. At the same time, mean values of factor scores are similar in the majority of groups; yet, significant differences are present for men and women, as well as in the youngest age group and people with tertiary education.

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Рабочий язык — английский.