A Factorial Survey on the Justice of Earnings Within the SOEP-Pretest 2008

Abstract

This research note describes the Factorial Survey and its implementation in the Pretest 2008 of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The main research objective of this study was to investigate the capability of Factorial Surveys in large population surveys. Therefore, we created a vignette module that was part of the CAPI-questionnaire with 24 descriptions of fulltime employees. Respondents gave their ratings using a three step procedure. Afterwards, interviewers and respondents gave feedbacks about the rating task. We analyzed these feedbacks and the response behavior in order to get detailed insights about the usability of this data collection method.