SHARE Wave 9 – New items on financial decision making, successful ageing, eating habits, sleep, long-term care insurance, and long-term care expectations (English Version)
General Information:
*Note: The item was tested in German. This is an English translation of the original German wording. The translation does not correspond exactly to the wording in the English SHARE source questionnaire.*
Question Text:
Please look at card 2. In a regular week, how often do you consume a serving of fruits or vergetables? [Bitte sehen Sie sich Liste 2 an. In einer normalen Woche – wie oft nehmen Sie eine Portion Obst oder Gemüse zu sich?]
Answer Categories:
Every day [Jeden Tag]
3-6 times a week [3-6 mal pro Woche]
Twice a week [Zweimal pro Woche]
Once a week [Einmal pro Woche]
Less than once a week [Weniger als einmal pro Woche]
Recommendations:
Question: The question should be supplemented by a definition of what is meant by “a serving of fruits or vegetables.” A possible formulation can be found in the recommendation on question 3. Furthermore, the question could be simplified grammatically:
"How often do you consume a serving of fruits or vegetables in a regular week?” [„Wie oft nehmen Sie in einer normalen Woche eine Portion Obst oder Gemüse zu sich?“]
Response options: We recommend making the answer options uniform and either write out "three to six times" [„Drei- bis sechsmal“ ] or write all response options as numbers.
Cognitive Techniques:
Emergent Probing
Findings for Question:
Since the explanation is only given in question 3, do the respondents have difficulties in defining a “serving” in question 2?
None of the respondents asked what was meant by "a serving of fruit or vegetables" in this question or commented otherwise on the lack of a definition of a serving. However, to ensure that respondents in the main survey are thinking of comparable servings, we recommend adding an explicit definition to the question.
