Survey Errors and Survey Costs
Wiley Series in Survey Methodology
1. Edition May 2004
616 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
A paperback edition of a Wiley bestseller, this book 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.
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. A review of the social science and statistical literatures on survey errors is included, and the relationships between the different types of errors are explored. Presents cost models designed to reduce the various types of 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.
