Robert M. Groves

Survey Errors Survey Cost P

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This paperback edition 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. 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 are discussed. A review of the social science and statistical literature on survey errors is included, and the relationships between the different types of errors are explored. It also presents cost models designed to reduce the various types of errors.

Produktdetails

• Wiley Series in Survey Methodology
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 616
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 950g
• ISBN-13: 9780471678519
• ISBN-10: 0471678511
• Artikelnr.: 12964674

Autorenporträt

ROBERT M. GROVES, PhD, is presently Program Director (Senior Research Scientist) in the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan, where he also serves as Director in the Institute for Social Research and Professor of Sociology. He also holds a joint appointment as Research Professor at the University of Maryland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. An Introduction to Survey Errors. 2. An Introduction to Survey Costs. 3. Costs and Errors of Covering the Population. 4. Nonresponse in Sample Surveys. 5. Probing the Causes of Nonresponse and Efforts to Reduce Nonresponse. 6. Costs and Errors Arising from Sampling. 7. Empirical Estimation of Survey Measurement Error. 8. The Interviewer as a Source of Survey Measurement Error. 9. The Respondent as a Source of Measurement Error. 10. Measurement Errors Associated with the Questionnaire. 101 Properties of Words in Questions. 11. Response Effects of the Mode of Data Collection. References. Index.