The University of Southampton has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to conduct the first wave of the GGS in the UK. [...] Within the cogability testing, the aim was to check that the routing of life event questions into the summary table was working as expected, to establish whether participants were able to edit any incorrect dates within the table, and to assess the general usability of the table. [...] The model investigates four cognitive stages: 1) how participants understand and interpret survey questions, 2) how they recall information that applies to the question, 3) the judgements they make as to what information to use when formulating their answers, and 4) the response mapping process i.e., the mapping of the answer by the respondent to the categorical responses provided in the survey. [...] This is an important technique to examine whether the participants’ interpretation of survey questions is consistent with the intended meanings of the survey questions, to provide valid interpretations of the responses to the data user. [...] When viewing the summary table, approximately half of the participants appeared to read the summary screen in detail, with the other half appearing to skim-read, which was evidence by the limited time spent on the summary table page.
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