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The aim of this session is to present new methodological approaches for getting validity evidence when psychological tests and scales are used in cross-cultural surveys (e. g. SF health questionnaire in the European Health Interview Survey, General Health Questionnaire in the Spanish Health Survey, etc.). Cross-cultural testing and survey can share concepts, definitions and methods (e. g. similar definitions of “measurement equivalence” or use of pre-test methods). Survey methodologists and psychometricians must analyse to what extent psychological tests and scales provide reliable and valid measurements when they are included in a survey questionnaire. Novel qualitative and quantitative proposals to examine reliability and validity problems will be welcome. Psychometricians and survey methodologists are encouraged to share experience when analysing metric properties of psychological measurements in cross-cultural surveys.