Population

Author
Affiliation

Noémi K. Schuurman

Methodology & Statistics, Utrecht University

Published

2023-06-26

Modified

2025-03-31

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This is the landing page for topics related to defining your constructs for your intensive longitudinal study.

Your constructs are the things you want to measure. In the social sciences, we often cannot directly observe the constructs we are interested in. Instead, we try to indirectly measure them, for example with questionnaires.

In order to measure our constructs well, we need to build a good understanding of them. This is a key part of both our substantive theories and measurement theories. A first step is to conceptually define your construct - you define what you mean exactly with your construct. After that, you can figure out how to operationally define your construct - how to measure it.

Below we have specified multiple topics that may help conceptually define your construct.

1 Think more about your constructs

We have collected various topics for you to read more about below.

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Citation

BibTeX citation:
@online{schuurman2023,
  author = {Schuurman, Noémi K.},
  title = {Population},
  date = {2023-06-26},
  langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Schuurman, N. K. (2023, June 26). Population.