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Design, evaluation, and analysis of questionnaires for survey research

This book aims to give students and survey researchers a state-of-the-art introduction to questionnaire design. The authors are recognized experts in their fields and have experience in teaching and research. While many researchers discover that their questions do not work post-hoc, this book alerts...

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Main Authors: Saris, Willem E
Corporate Authors: Wiley InterScience Online service
Group Author: Gallhofer, Irmtraud N
Published:
Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Series: Wiley series in survey methodology
Subjects:
Social surveys
Social surveys > Methodology
Questionnaires
Interviewing
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Research
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Methodology
Electronic books
Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470165195
Summary: This book aims to give students and survey researchers a state-of-the-art introduction to questionnaire design. The authors are recognized experts in their fields and have experience in teaching and research. While many researchers discover that their questions do not work post-hoc, this book alerts designers of questionnaires to the many decisions they make that will affect the quality of the research outcome. Most importantly, the book presents a tool with which to measure the quality of questions at the outset.
Carrier Form: vii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-372) and index.
ISBN: 9780470165195
0470165197
9780470165188
0470165189
1280956984
9781280956980
Index Number: HN29
CLC: C915
Contents: DESIGN, EVALUATION, AND ANALYSIS OF QUESTIONNAlRES FOR SURVEY RESEARCH; Preface; Contents; Introduction; Part I. The three-steps procedure to design requests for an answer; 1. Concepts-by-postulation and concepts-by-intuition; 2. From social science concepts-by-intuition to assertions; 3. The formulation of requests for an answer; Part II. Choices involved in questionnaire design; 4. Specific survey research features of requests for an answer; 5. Response alternatives; 6. The structure of open-ended and closed survey items; 7. Survey items in batteries.

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