Replication data and code: The Influence of Response Scale Labels on the Assessment of Self-rated Health

The data provided contains the dataset and the analysis code that was used for the paper "The Influence of Response Scale Labels on the Assessment of Self-rated Health". In this study, we compare four German-language five-point scale versions of self-rated health that vary in response scale labeling using web probing. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods, we assess how response scale labels affect response distributions of the self-rated health item and which health factors respondents consider when answering questions about their health. The data provided here contains only the closed-ended and coded items while the verbal responses to the open-ended probe were removed. The data provided contains the dataset and the analysis code that was used for the paper "The Influence of Response Scale Labels on the Assessment of Self-rated Health". In this study, we compare four German-language five-point scale versions of self-rated health that vary in response scale labeling using web probing. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods, we assess how response scale labels affect response distributions of the self-rated health item and which health factors respondents consider when answering questions about their health. The data provided here contains only the closed-ended and coded items while the verbal responses to the open-ended probe were removed.