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Necessary but Insufficient: Why Measurement Invariance Tests Need Online Probing as a Complementary Tool.

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May 2017

Katharina Meitinger is a researcher at GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim, Germany, and a teaching associate at the University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany. The author thanks Michael Braun, Eldad Davidov, three anonymous reviewers, and the editors for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this manuscript, as well as Dorothée Behr, Lars Kaczmirek, and Wolfgang Bandilla for sharing their expertise in online probing. This research was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the project "Optimizing Probing Procedures for Cross-National Web Surveys" [BR 908/5-1 to Michael Braun, Wolfgang Bandilla, and Lars Kaczmirek]. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2016 Conference of the World Association for Public Opinion Research and won the Janet A. Harkness Student Paper Award and the NCHS Monroe Sirken Innovative Award for Young Scholars of Question Evaluation.

Cross-national data production in social science research has increased dramatically in recent decades. Assessing the comparability of data is necessary before drawing substantive conclusions that are based on cross-national data. Researchers assessing data comparability typically use either quantitative methods such as multigroup confirmatory factor analysis or qualitative methods such as online probing.

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