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| Type | Conference Presentation |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | The cross-country comparability of the immigration module in the European Social Survey 2014-15 |
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| Presentation Type | speech |
| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Event Title | Second International Conference on Survey Methods in Multinational, Multiregional and Multicultural Contexts |
| Event Type | conference |
| Event Location | Chicago |
| Event Start Date | July 25 - 2016 |
| Event End Date | July 29 - 2016 |
| Abstract Text | A special module about attitudes toward immigration and threat due to immigration was implemented in the 7th Round of European Social Survey (ESS). In our project we set two goals. The first one was to establish in a theory-driven way latent variables based on items included in the module. These latent variables can be used by researchers in their substantive work on immigration using the ESS. The second goal was to test for measurement invariance of these scales across 15 ESS countries. We proposed the four following latent variables: allowing for immigrants belonging to different ethnic groups than the majority population into the country; qualification for entry; and two types of threat due to immigrants – realistic and symbolic. First, we tested each latent variable in each country separately in single Confirmatory Factor Analyses (CFAs). Next, we tested for measurement invariance of each latent variable using multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analysis (MGCFA). We differentiated between three levels of measurement invariance, configural, metric and scalar, and we applied two approaches: an exact and an approximate measurement invariance approach. If full or partial exact measurement invariance could not be established, we tested whether approximate invariance was given. Configural and metric invariance was supported for all constructs across most countries. Unfortunately scalar invariance was supported for the latent variables only across a subset of countries. The subset of countries where approximate scalar invariance was established was larger than the subset of countries for which exact measurement invariance could be established. |
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