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Measurement Errors in Surveys
Copyright © 1991, 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.
Editor(s): Paul P. Biemer, Robert M. Groves, Lars E. Lyberg, Nancy A. Mathiowetz, Seymour Sudman
Published Online: 18 OCT 2011 07:15AM EST
Print ISBN: 9780471692805
Online ISBN: 9781118150382
DOI: 10.1002/9781118150382
Book Series: Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
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"This book will be an aid to survey statisticians and to research workers who must work with survey data."
-Short Book Reviews, International Statistical Institute
Measurement Errors in Surveys documents the current state of the field, reports new research findings, and promotes interdisciplinary exchanges in modeling, assessing, and reducing measurement errors in surveys. Providing a fundamental approach to measurement errors, the book features sections on the questionnaire, respondents and responses, interviewers and other means of data collection, the respondent-interviewer relationship, and the effects of measurement errors on estimation and data analysis.
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Front Matter (pages i–xxxv)
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Chapter 1
Measurement Error Across Disciplines (pages 1–25)
Robert M. Groves
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Part I: The Questionnaire
Chapter 2
The Current Status of Questionnaire Research (pages 27–40)
Norman M. Bradburn and Seymour Sudman
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Chapter 3
Response Alternatives: The Impact of Their Choice and Presentation Order (pages 41–56)
Norbert Schwarz and Hans-Jürgen Hippler
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Chapter 4
Context Effects in the General Social Survey (pages 57–71)
Tom W. Smith
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Chapter 5
Mode Effects of Cognitively Designed Recall Questions: A Comparison of Answers to Telephone and Mail Surveys (pages 73–93)
Don A. Dillman and John Tarnai
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Chapter 6
Nonexperimental Research on Question Wording Effects: A Contribution to Solving the Generalizability Problem (pages 95–111)
Nico Molenaar
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Chapter 7
Measurement Errors in Business Surveys (pages 113–123)
Solomon Dutka and Lester R. Frankel
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Part II: Respondents and Responses
Chapter 8
Recall Error: Sources and Bias Reduction Techniques (pages 125–144)
Donna Eisenhower, Nancy A. Mathiowetz and David Morganstein
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Chapter 9
Measurement Effects in Self vs. Proxy Response to Survey Questions: An Information-Processing Perspective (pages 145–166)
Johnny Blair, Geeta Menon and Barbara Bickart
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Chapter 10
An Alternative Approach to Obtaining Personal History Data (pages 167–183)
Barbara Means, Gary E. Swan, Jared B. Jobe and James L. Esposito
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Chapter 11
The Item Count Technique as a Method of Indirect Questioning: A Review of Its Development and a Case Study Application (pages 185–210)
Judith Droitcour, Rachel A. Caspar, Michael L. Hubbard, Teresa L. Parsley, Wendy Visscher and Trena M. Ezzati
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Chapter 12
Toward a Response Model in Establishment Surveys (pages 211–233)
W. Sherman Edwards and David Cantor
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Part III: Interviewers and Other Means of Data Collection
Chapter 13
Data Collection Methods and Measurement Error: An Overview (pages 235–257)
Lars Lyberg and Daniel Kasprzyk
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Chapter 14
Reducing Interviewer-Related Error Through Interviewer Training, Supervision, and Other Means (pages 259–278)
Floyd J. Fowler
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Chapter 15
The Design and Analysis of Reinterview: An Overview (pages 279–301)
Gösta Forsman and Irwin Schreiner
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Chapter 16
Expenditure Diary Surveys and Their Associated Errors (pages 303–326)
Adriana R. Silberstein and Stuart Scott
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Chapter 17
A Review of Errors of Direct Observation in Crop Yield Surveys (pages 327–346)
Ron Fecso
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Chapter 18
Measurement Error in Continuing Surveys of the Grocery Retail Trade Using Electronic Data Collection Methods (pages 347–364)
John E. Donmyer, Frank W. Piotrowski and Kirk M. Wolter
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Part IV: Measurement Errors in the Interview Process
Chapter 19
Conversation with a Purpose—or Conversation? Interaction in the Standardized Interview (pages 365–391)
Nora Cate Schaeffer
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Chapter 20
Cognitive Laboratory Methods: A Taxonomy (pages 393–418)
Barbara H. Forsyth and Judith T. Lessler
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Chapter 21
Studying Respondent-Interviewer Interaction: The Relationship Between Interviewing Style, Interviewer Behavior, and Response Behavior (pages 419–437)
Johannes van der Zouwen, Wil Dijkstra and Johannes H. Smit
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Chapter 22
The Effect of Interviewer and Respondent Characteristics on the Quality of Survey Data: A Multilevel Model (pages 439–461)
Joop J. Hox, Edith D. de Leeuw and Ita G. G. Kreft
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Chapter 23
Interviewer, Respondent, and Regional Office Effects on Response Variance: A Statistical Decomposition (pages 463–483)
Daniel H. Hill
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Part V: Modeling Measurement Errors and Their Effects on Estimation and Data Analysis
Chapter 24
Approaches to the Modeling of Measurement Errors (pages 485–516)
Paul Biemer and S. Lynne Stokes
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Chapter 25
A Mixed Model for Analyzing Measurement Errors for Dichotomous Variables (pages 517–530)
Jeroen Pannekoek
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Chapter 26
Models for Memory Effects in Count Data (pages 531–549)
Piet G. W. M. van Dosselaar
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Chapter 27
Simple Response Variance: Estimation and Determinants (pages 551–574)
Colm O'Muircheartaigh
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Chapter 28
Evaluation of Measurement Instruments Using a Structural Modeling Approach (pages 575–597)
Willem E. Saris and Frank M. Andrews
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Chapter 29
Path Analysis of Cross-National Data Taking Measurement Errors into Account (pages 599–616)
Ingrid M. E. Munck
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Chapter 30
Regression Estimation in the Presence of Measurement Error (pages 617–635)
Wayne A. Fuller
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Chapter 31
Chi-Squared Tests with Complex Survey Data Subject to Misclassification Error (pages 637–663)
J. N. K. Rao and D. Roland Thomas
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Chapter 32
The Effect of Measurement Error on Event History Analysis (pages 665–685)
D. Holt, J. W. McDonald and C. J. Skinner
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References (pages 687–733)
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Index (pages 735–760)
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Wiley Series in Survey Methodology (pages 761–764)
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