Survey Measurement and Process Quality

Lars E. Lyberg (Edited by), Paul P. Biemer (Edited by), Martin Collins (Edited by), Edith D. de Leeuw (Edited by), Cathryn Dippo (Edited by), Norbert Schwarz (Edited by), Dennis Trewin (Edited by)

9780471165590, Wiley

Hardback, published 7 March 1997

808 pages
24.6 x 16.3 x 4.2 cm, 1.08 kg

Der fünfte Band der Monographiereihe auf der Grundlage von Konferenzen, die mit Mitteln der American Statistical Association ausgerichtet wurden.

Aus dem Inhalt:
Introduction;
QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN: Questionnaire Design The Rocky Road from Concepts to Answers;
From Theoretical Concepts to Survey Question;
Why are There So Few Formal Measuring Instruments in Social and Political Research?;
Social Cognition and Responses to Survey Question Among Culturally Diverse Population;
Reducing Question Order Effects: The Operation of Buffer Items;
Designing Rating Scales for Effective Measurement in Survey;
Towards a Theory of Self-Administered Questionnaire Design;
DATA COLLECTION: Data Collection Methods and Survey Quality: An Overview;
The Effect of New Data Collection Technologies on Survey Data Quality;
Speech Recognition Applications for Survey Research;
Evaluating Interviewer Use of CAPI Technology;
The Effect of Interviewer and Respondent Behavior on Data Quality: Analysis of Interaction Coding in a Validation Study;
Effects of Interview Mode on Sensitive Questions in a Fertility Survey;
Children as Respondents: Methods for Improving Data Quality: POST SURVEY PROCESSING AND OPERATIONS: Some Aspects of Post Survey Processing;
Integrated Control Systems for Using Expert Systems to Model and Improve Survey Classification Processes;
Editing of Survey Data: How Much is Enough?;
The Quality of Occupational Coding in the United Kingdom;
QUALITY ASSESSMENT AND CONTROL: Survey Measurement and Process Improvement: Concepts and Integration;
Continuous Quality Improvement in Statistical Agencies;
Quality Policies, Standards, Guidelines, and Recommended Practices at National Statistical Agencies;
Improving the Comparability of Estimates Across Business Surveys;
Evaluating Survey Data: Making the Transition from Pretesting to Quality Assessment;
CATI Site Management in a Survey of Service Quality;
Using Statistical Methods Applicable to Autocorrelated Processes to Analyse Survey Process Quality Data;
ERROR EFFECTS ON ESTIMATION ANALYSES, AND INTERPRETATION: A Review of Measurement Error Effects on the Analysis of Survey Data;
Categorical Data Analysis and Misclassification;
Separating Change and Measurement Error in Panel Surveys with an Application to Labor Market Data;
Estimating Usual Dietary Intake Distributions: Adjusting for Measurement Error and Nonnormaility in 24-hour Food Intake Data;
Identifying and Adjusting for Recall Error with Application to Fertility Surveys;
Estimators of Nonsampling Errors in Interview-Reinterview Supervised Surveys with Interpenetrated Assignments;
Variance Estimation Under Two-Phase Stratified Sampling with Applications to Measurement Bias.

Subject Areas: Mathematics [PB]