Ressources

Dear colleagues,

These may be some helpful openly available ressources:

General literature ressources:

• Cross-cultural survey guidelines

• AAPOR/WAPOR Task Force Report on Quality in Comparative Surveys

Open access tools and related ressources:

• The MCSQ: The multilingual corpus of survey questionnaires
• How this corpus may be used in survey translation
• Computer-assisted translation tool OmegaT
• Computer-assisted translation tool Matecat

Documentation of questionnaire translation:

• Documenting survey translation

Particularities of computer-assisted translated surveys:

• Computer-assisted Migration Research: What We Can Learn about Source Questionnaire Design and Translation from the Software Localization Field

Advance translations, translatability assessments, and translation notes:

• Advance Translation—The Remedy to Improve Translatability of Source Questionnaires? Results of a Think-Aloud Study

• Usefulness of translatability assessment: results from a retrospective study

• Questionnaire Translation in Cross-National Survey Research: on the Types and Value of Annotations