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Padilla, José Luis., Martinez, Miguel Angel., Moratilla, Teresa. and Gonzalez, Andres. "Using cognitive interviews to improve the quality of questions on working time in the Spanish Labour Force Survey" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association For Public Opinion Association, Fontainebleau Resort, Miami Beach, FL, <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p16973_index.html>

Padilla, J. , Martinez, M. , Moratilla, T. and Gonzalez, A. "Using cognitive interviews to improve the quality of questions on working time in the Spanish Labour Force Survey" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association For Public Opinion Association, Fontainebleau Resort, Miami Beach, FL <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p16973_index.html

Publication Type: Paper/Poster Proposal Abstract: Statistics on working time are essential for revealing characteristics of the labour market. Organisation of working time may be measured in different ways, two of the most common being ‘actual hours worked’ and ‘usual hours worked’. The Spanish Labour Force Survey is the principal source of information on working hours in Spain. The LFS asks respondents to provide information on usual and actual hours worked, as well as overtime during the survey reference week. In view of changes to be introduced in the Spanish LFS in 2005, various studies have been carried out to improve the quality of working time measurement. The present paper considers results of using cognitive interviews to improve the formulation of questions concerning actual working time, usual working time and overtime. A total of 57 cognitive interviews were conducted. Participants were selected on the basis of socio-demographic and educational characteristics of particular interest for the study: immigrants, young people, employees, housewives and people aged over 65. Interview protocol was designed with a view to obtaining information on the understanding of the concepts, the information retrieval and the formulation of answers to questions on the three variables. Results indicate that interviewees did not distinguish between the concepts of “actual hours worked” and “usual hours worked” during the survey reference week. It is also significant that immigrants related “usual hours worked” to the number of hours “settled” or “agreed” with the employer. Moreover, the concept of overtime was interpreted as paid working hours exceeding the usual number of hours. In addition to discussing the implications of these results in relation to the characteristics of study participants, the article proposes procedures for analysing cognitive interviews when the target questions are open questions.

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