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Discussion Groups / English Usage / May 2009a question that will be asked to American people
Below is a question I prepared for a questionnaire on labor market issues that will appear online in the US. Please consider the question as if you are a survey respondent. Then tell me what was not clear to you in the question. I am asking your help to see the problems of the question and improve it. You help will improve the scientific research I am working on. *************************************** People follow different career paths. Many work full time for some years and then enter into full retirement. Others work full time for some years and then work part time for several years before they enter into full retirement. Yet others follow some other type of path. In fact career paths can be diverse. Below we present [three/four] simplified career paths. We would like you to choose the path that is most close to the path you [will actually realize/have realized]. The career paths we present can be oversimplified and be different than yours. Still, we would like you to choose the path that is most close to the path you [will realize/have realized] throughout your work life. When answering the question - ignore the periods of your career when you were unemployed, temporarily sick, temporarily retired, or temporarily on other leave - if you have held two jobs at the same time, consider the total number of work hours in considering yourself a full time or a part time employee - ignore if you have changed jobs but consider only if you have changed your number of work hours 1. If you are currently a full time employee or self employee consider this part only Which of the following career paths are you more likely to have realized? Please base your choice as much as possible on your opportunities rather than on your preferences. a. After many years of full time work I will enter into full retirement b. After many/some years of full time work I will work part time for many/some years and then I will enter into full retirement c. After many/some years of part time work I am currently working full time for many/some years before I enter into full retirement 2. If you are currently a part time employee or self employee consider this part only Which of the following career paths are you more likely to have realized? Please base your choice as much as possible on your opportunities rather than on your preferences. a. After many years of part time work I will enter into full retirement b. After many/some years of part time work I will work full time for many/some years and then I will enter into full retirement c. After many/some years of full time work I am currently working part time for many/some years before I enter into full retirement d. Reversals 3. If you are currently a full time retiree consider this part only Which of the following career paths most closely represents the path you have realized? a. After many years of full time work I entered into full retirement b. After many/some years of full time work I worked part time for many/some years and then I entered into full retirement c. After many years of part time work I entered into full retirement d. After many/some years of part time work I worked full time for many/some years and then I entered into full retirement 4. If you are currently a part time retiree consider this part only Which of the following career paths are you more likely to have realized? a. After many years of full time work I entered into part time retirement b. After many years of part time work I entered into part time retirement c. After many/some years of full time work I worked part time for many/some years and then I entered into part time retirement d. After many/some years of part time work I worked full time for many/some years and then I entered into part time retirement 5. If you are currently unemployed, temporarily laid off, sick or on leave consider this part only Which of the following career paths are you more likely to have realized? Please base your choice as much as possible on your opportunities rather than on your preferences. a. After many years of full time work I will enter into full retirement b. After many/some years of full time work I will work part time for many/some years and then I will enter into full retirement c. After many/some years of part time work I am currently working full time for many/some years before I enter into full retirement d. After many years of part time work I will enter into full retirement e. After many/some years of part time work I will work full time for many/some years and then I will enter into full retirement f. After many/some years of full time work I am currently working part time for many/some years before I enter into full retirement **************************** > Below is a question I prepared for a questionnaire on labor market issues > that will appear online in the US. Please consider the question as if you > are a survey respondent. Then tell me what was not clear to you in the > question. I am asking your help to see the problems of the question and > improve it. You help will improve the scientific research I am working on. "The question", as you call it, is far too long and complicated (though I suppose that may be partly a result of the usenet text-only medium in which you present it). Nobody will answer it. You need to ask simple, direct questions, each of which limits the question(s) you ask next. One path through the survey might go like this (every question is answered "yes", or a different question would have been asked next): Are you currently working? Are you working full-time? Have you worked part-time in the past? Do you plan to work part-time again prior to full retirement? I suppose this won't fit into the conceptual framework of your research design, however... Jim Deutch (JimboCat) -- "Never let it be denied that I couldn't help but fail to disagree with you less." [R H Draney] First of all thank you for your reply. > "The question", as you call it, is far too long and complicated > (though I suppose that may be partly a result of the usenet text-only > medium in which you present it). Nobody will answer it. Ok I should have mentioned: I will ask the labor market status of the respondent prior to this question. For example they will indicate that they are currently working full time. And then these full time workers will get only the part (part 1 in my question) that refers to them. Hence they will not see all the options. Given this, do you think that the question is still long and complicated? > You need to ask simple, direct questions, each of which limits the > question(s) you ask next. One path through the survey might go like [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Have you worked part-time in the past? > Do you plan to work part-time again prior to full retirement? Good suggestion. I will definitely think about it asking in this way. > I suppose this won't fit into the conceptual framework of your > research design, however... I need to think about it. I need rather a clear career path stated. Questions like "have you worked part time in the past" will not identify the path very clearly. However, if I can do its wording properly, I can work something out. But thanks a lot for your suggestions. > Jim Deutch (JimboCat) > -- > "Never let it be denied that I couldn't help but fail to disagree with > you less." [R H Draney] > Below is a question I prepared for a questionnaire on labor market > issues that will appear online in the US. Paths are followed, not realized. One asks questions of, not to (though one can put a question to). The career paths we present /may/ be oversimplified >> Below is a question I prepared for a questionnaire on labor market >> issues that will appear online in the US. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > The career paths we present /may/ be oversimplified Thank you I will change as you indicate. >> Below is a question I prepared for a questionnaire on labor market >> issues that will appear online in the US. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >The career paths we present /may/ be oversimplified Isn't "career path" tautologous redundant?  SignatureSteve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk >Isn't "career path" tautologous redundant? Not to me it isn't. -GAWollman SignatureGarrett A. Wollman | The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are wollman@csail.mit.edu| nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry Opinions not those | grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape of MIT or CSAIL. | our history. - S.J. Gould, Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness >> Below is a question I prepared for a questionnaire on labor market >> issues that will appear online in the US. > > Paths are followed, not realized. Ok thank you. > One asks questions of, not to (though one can put a question to). I don't get this part. "Can I ask questions to him?" What is wrong with this? One can ask a question to someone, if my English is not too bad. >> One asks questions of, not to (though one can put a question to). > > I don't get this part. "Can I ask questions to him?" What is wrong with > this? One can ask a question to someone, if my English is not too bad. You can /put/ a question /to/ him but you must /ask/ a question /of/ him. Asking a question to him is just plain wrong, sorry! (And don't ask me why) >>> Below is a question I prepared for a questionnaire on labor market >>> issues that will appear online in the US. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > with this? One can ask a question to someone, if my English is not > too bad. You can always make it simpler, as long as you remember that "him" is the indirect object (for future consideration): "Can I ask him questions?" For some reason, "ask questions to him" is not acceptable. You can "address (or put) questions to him"--But address (put) him some questions just don't work. >>>> Below is a question I prepared for a questionnaire on labor market >>>> issues that will appear online in the US. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > "address (or put) questions to him"--But address (put) him some questions > just don't work. Ok it my, and rather a bad, mistake. Thank you all. minimus filted: >5. If you are currently unemployed, temporarily laid off, sick or on leave >consider this part only [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >f. After many/some years of full time work I am currently working part time >for many/some years before I enter into full retirement None of the above...after many/some years of full time work I will most probably die without ever entering into full retirement....r SignatureA pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this? > People follow different career paths. Many work full time for some years and > then enter into full retirement. Others work full time for some years and [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > - ignore if you have changed jobs but consider only if you have changed > your number of work hours People follow different career paths. Many work full time for some years and > then enter into full retirement. Others work full time for some years and > then work part time for several years before they enter into full [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > choose the path that is most close to the path you [will realize/have > realized] throughout your work life People follow different career paths. Some work full time and then retire, some retire only partially, others do something else. Please choose the career path you're most likely to follow from the simplified choices offered below: (Sorry, I had time for the first paragraph only). BTW, try repeating "path" over and over, it's a weird sensation. > People follow different career paths. Some work full time and then > retire, some retire only partially, others do something else. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > (Sorry, I had time for the first paragraph only). > BTW, try repeating "path" over and over, it's a weird sensation. Thank you very much for your concern. I changed it according to your suggestions! |
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