Research Catalog

Title

Measurement errors in surveys / edited by Paul P. Biemer, Robert M. Groves , Lars E. Lyberg [and others].

Publication

New York ; Chichester : Wiley, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Biemer, Paul P.
• Groves, Robert M.
• Lyberg, Lars.

Description

xxxiii, 760 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Wiley series in survey methodology. Applied probability and statistics

Uniform Title

Wiley series in survey methodology. Applied probability and statistics.

Subjects

• Probability
• Data Collection
• Mathematics
• Error analysis (Mathematics)
• Models, Statistical
• Surveys

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / William Kruskal -- 1. Measurement error across disciplines / Robert M. Groves -- 2. The current status of questionnaire design / Norman M. Bradburn and Seymour Sudman -- 3. Response alternatives : the impact of their choice and presentation order / Norbert Schwarz and Hans-Jurgen Hippler -- 4. Context effects in the general social survey / Tom W. Smith -- 5. Mode effects of cognitively designed recall questions : a comparison of answers to telephone and mail surveys / Don A. Dillman and John Tarnai -- 6. Nonexperimental research on question wording effects : a contribution to solving the generalizability problem / Nico Molenaar -- 7. Measurement errors in business surveys / Solomon Dutka and Lester R. Frankel -- 8. Recall error : sources and bias reduction techniques / Donna Eisenhower, Nancy A. Mathiowetz and David Morganstein -- 9. Measurement effects in self vs. proxy response to survey questions : an information-processing perspective / Johnny Blair, Geeta Menon and Barbara Bickart -- 10. An alternative approach to obtaining personal history data / Barbara Means, Gary E. Swan, Jared B. Jobe and James L. Esposito -- 11. The item count technique as a method of indirect questioning : a review of its development and a case study application / Judith Droitcour, Rachel A. Caspar, Michael L. Hubbard, Teresa L. Parsley, Wendy Visscher and Trena M. Ezzati -- 12. Toward a response model in establishment surveys / W. Sherman Edwards and David Cantor -- 13. Data collection methods and measurement error : an overview / Lars Lyberg and Daniel Kasprzyk -- 14. Reducing interviewer-related error through interviewer training, supervision, and other means / Floyd J. Fowler, Jr. -- 15. The design and analysis of reinterview : an overview / Gosta Forsman and Irwin Schreiner -- 16. Expenditure diary surveys and their associated errors / Adriana R. Silberstein and Stuart Scott -- 17. A review of errors of direct observation in crop yield surveys / Ron Fecso -- 18. Measurement error in continuing surveys of the grocery retail trade using electronic data collection methods / John E. Donmyer, Frank W. Piotrowski and Kirk M. Wolter -- 19. Conversation with a purpose - or conversation? : interaction in the standardized interview / Nora Cate Schaeffer -- 20. Cognitive laboratory methods : a taxonomy / Barbara H. Forsyth and Judith T. Lessler -- 21. Studying respondent-interviewer interaction : the relationship between interviewing style, interviewer behavior, and response behavior / Johannes van der Zouwen, Wil Dijkstra and Johannes H. Smit -- 22. The effect of interviewer and respondent characteristics on the quality of survey data : a multilevel model / Joop J. Hox, Edith D. de Leeuw and Ita G. G. Kreft -- 23. Interviewer, respondent, and regional office effects on response variance : a statistical decomposition / Daniel H. Hill -- 24. Approaches to the modeling of measurement errors / Paul Biemer and S. Lynne Stokes -- 25. A mixed model for analyzing measurement errors for dichotomous variables / Jeroen Pannekoek -- 26. Models for memory effects in count data / Piet G. W. M. van Dosselaar -- 27. Simple response variance : estimation and determinants / Colm O'Muircheartaigh -- 28. Evaluation of measurement instruments using a structural modeling approach / Willem E. Saris and Frank M. Andrews -- 29. A path analysis of cross-national data taking measurement errors into account / Ingrid M. E. Munck -- 30. Regression estimation in the presence of measurement error / Wayne A. Fuller -- 31. Chi-squared tests with complex survey data subject to misclassification error / J. N. K. Rao and D. Roland Thomas -- 32. The effect of measurement error on event history analysis / D. Holt, J. W. McDonald and C. J. Skinner.

ISBN

0471692808 (pbk.) :

OCLC

• ocm56539016
• SCSB-5070465

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries