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Presents a comprehensive treatment of survey errors and the costs and benefits of alternative survey designs, integrating statistical and social science perspectives on survey design. Considers coverage error, nonresponse error, sampling error, and measurement error, including the effects of intervi...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley series in survey methodology
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/0471725277 |
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Presents a comprehensive treatment of survey errors and the costs and benefits of alternative survey designs, integrating statistical and social science perspectives on survey design. Considers coverage error, nonresponse error, sampling error, and measurement error, including the effects of interviewers and respondents, the wording of the questionnaire, and mode of data collection. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource ([xxii], 590 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
0471678511 9780471678519 0471725277 9780471725275 0471725269 9780471725268 |
| Index Number: | HB849 |
| CLC: | C915 |
| Contents: | An introduction to survey errors -- An introduction to survey costs -- Costs and errors of covering the population -- Nonresponse in sample surveys -- Probing the causes of nonresponse and efforts to reduce nonresponse -- Costs and errors arising from sampling -- Empirical estimation of survey measurement error -- The interviewer as a source of survey measurement error -- The respondent as a source of measurement error -- Measurement errors associated with the questionnaire -- Response effects of the mode of data collection. |