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Improving Survey Methods
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ABSTRACT
This state-of-the-art volume provides insight into the recent developments in survey research. It covers topics like: survey modes and response effects, bio indicators and paradata, interviewer and survey error, mixed-mode panels, sensitive questions, conducting web surveys and access panels, coping with non-response, and handling missing data. The authors are leading scientists in the field, and discuss the latest methods and challenges with respect to these topics.
Each of the book’s eight parts starts with a brief chapter that provides an historical context along with an overview of today’s most critical survey methods. Chapters in the sections focus on research applications in practice and discuss results from field studies. As such, the book will help researchers design surveys according to today’s best practices.
The book’s website www.survey-methodology.de provides additional information, statistical analyses, tables and figures.
An indispensable reference for practicing researchers and methodologists or any professional who uses surveys in their work, this book also serves as a supplement for graduate or upper level-undergraduate courses on survey methods taught in psychology, sociology, education, economics, and business. Although the book focuses on European findings, all of the research is discussed with reference to the entire survey-methodology area, including the US. As such, the insights in this book will apply to surveys conducted around the world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |11 pages
Improving Survey Methods
part |54 pages
Survey Modes and Response Effects
chapter |16 pages
Response Effects and Cognitive Involvement in Answering Survey Questions
part |31 pages
Interviewers and Survey Error
chapter |14 pages
Can Interviewer Personality, Attitudes and Experience Explain the Design Effect in Face-to-Face Surveys?
chapter |12 pages
Interviewers' Falsifications in Face-to-Face Surveys
part |51 pages
Asking Sensitive Questions
chapter |16 pages
A New Randomizing Device for the RRT Using Benford's Law
chapter |15 pages
Asking Sensitive Questions
chapter |13 pages
The Factorial Survey as a Method for Measuring Sensitive Issues
part |47 pages
Conducting Web Surveys
chapter |14 pages
e-Social Science Perspective on Survey Process
chapter |14 pages
Evaluating Cross-National Item Equivalence with Probing Questions in Web Surveys
part |67 pages
Conducting Access Panels
chapter |13 pages
Survey Participation in a Probability-Based Internet Panel in the Netherlands
chapter |14 pages
The Access Panel of German Official Statistics as a Selection Frame
part |49 pages
Surveys—Expanding the Horizon
chapter |4 pages
Combining Surveys with Non-Questionnaire Data
chapter |15 pages
Enhancing Surveys with Objective Measurements and Observer Ratings
part |46 pages
Coping with Nonresponse
chapter |12 pages
Nonresponse in Comparative Studies
part |49 pages
Handling Missing Data