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  • Response patterns are of importance to survey researchers because of the insight they provide into the thought processes respondents use to answer survey questions. In this paper we propose the use of structural equation modeling to examine response patterns and develop a permutation test to quantify the likelihood of observing a specific response pattern. Of interest is a response pattern where the response to the current item is conditioned on the respondent’s answer to the immediately preceding item. This pattern manifests itself in the error structure of the survey items by resulting in larger correlations of the errors for adjacent items than for non-adjacent items. We illustrate the proposed method using data from the 2002 Oregon Survey of Roads and Highways and report SAS code which can be easily modified to examine other response patterns of interest.
  • Keywords: permutation test, general-specific questions, correlated errors, response patterns in surveys
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  • Hildreth, L., Genschel, U., Lorenz, F., & Lesser, V. (2013). A permutation test for correlated errors in adjacent questionnaire items. Structural Equation Modeling-a Multidisciplinary Journal, 20(2), 226-240. doi:10.1080/10705511.2013.769390
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