Providing Information in Public Opinion Surveys: Motivation and Ability Effects in the Information-and-Choice Questionnaire
March 1996
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The Information-and-Choice Questionnaire (ICQ) is an instrument for public opinion survey in which respondents are presented with a policy-relevant decision problem and provided with information relevant to the problem (e.g. information about the consequences of the policy options). In the present paper we study the effects of respondents' motivation (operationalized as involvement in the issue) and ability (operationalized as respondent's level of education) on the formation and stability of preferences in the ICQ. Data were gathered in a nation-wide (N=991) survey on preferences for different ways of generating electricity in the Netherlands. As predicted, more motivated and more able respondents appeared to engage in more elaborate information processing.
- respondent
- information
- opinion
- effect
- consequence
- option
- involvement
- choice
- neijen
- preference
- processing
- policy
- 14 units
- evaluation
- survey
- result
- decision problem
- decision
- education
- information processing
