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102 WEDNESDAY 20 JULY2.36.3 How do Respondents Perceive a Quesonnaire? The Contribuon of Open-ended QuesonsE. Markou 1 , B. Garnier 11 Instut Naonal d’Etudes Démographiques, FranceWhen they fill out a quesonnaire, the respondents mobilize their experience on the theme of the surveybut they also take posion towards the quesonnaire. Understanding how a quesonnaire is perceived byrespondents is thus necessary in order to improve the survey methodology and to beer appreciate the collecteddata. Open-ended quesons are an appropriate way to have a beer image of the understanding, theimpact and the relevance of the quesonnaire.2.36.4 Quality of some open-ended survey quesonsD. Oberski 1 , W. van der Veld 2 , W. Saris 11 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain; 2 Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, NetherlandsOpen-ended survey quesons have the advantage that they might provide more informaon than closed ques-ons. For example, the respondent might give condions on an opinion, provide a movaon, or give moreprecise esmates of quanes than allowed by closed categories. In addion, closed categories might imposethe researcher’s frame of reference upon the respondent, thus affecng the answers (Krosnick& Schuman 1988; Krosnick& Fabrigar 1997).2.37 Design and Implementaon of Mulmode SurveysTo be held on July 20, 2011 from: 16:00 to 17:30, in room 321.Coordinated by: Colm O’Muircheartaigh - University of Chicago, United States2.37.1 Assessing mode effects: implicaons of embedding a children’s quality of life quesonnaire withinan Internet surveyK. Lloyd 11 Queen’s University Belfast, United KingdomThe aim of this paper is to examine whether there are mode effects associated with using a children’s qualityof life measure embedded within an internet survey, Kids’ Life and Times (KLT), when compared with its moretradional use as a paper quesonnaire. Parcipants were 3440 10 and 11 year old children in Northern Irelandwho completed the KIDSCREEN-27 online as part of a general atudinal survey. The quesonnaire wasanimated using cartoon characters that are familiar to this age group and the quesons appeared on screenand were read aloud by actors. Exploratory principal component analysis of the online version of the ques-onnaire was carried out to examine whether the five domains (physical wellbeing, psychological wellbeing,autonomy and parents, social support and peers and school environment) reported for the paper version ofthe KIDSCREEN-27 could be replicated...2.37.2 Mulple modes in cross-naonal surveys – a good mix?P. Marn 1 , R. Fitzgerald 11 City University London, United KingdomCross-naonal surveys that consider mixed mode data collecon face special problems. Because naonal ”surveyclimates” differ according to respondent expectaons, fieldwork experse, and mode penetraon, mostcross-naonal surveys cannot implement the same mixed mode design in all parcipang countries. Yet differencesin data collecon designs pose a threat to measurement equivalence, potenally confounding countrydifferences with errors introduced by country-specific survey pracces.