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Meeting name:	Workshop on Survey Automation (2002 : Washington, D.C.)
Imprint:	Washington, DC : National Academies Press, ©2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 260 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Surveys -- Methodology -- Technological innovations -- Congresses. Questionnaires -- Technological innovations -- Congresses. Internet questionnaires -- Congresses. Statistics -- Data processing -- Congresses. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING. Surveying. REFERENCE -- Research. Internet questionnaires. Statistics -- Data processing. Electronic books. Electronic book. Electronic books. Conference papers and proceedings. Electronic books. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11128320

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Other authors / contributors:	National Research Council (U.S.). Oversight Committee for the Workshop on Survey Automation. National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics.
ISBN:	0309510104 9780309510103 128208397X 9781282083974 9786612083976 6612083972 0309089301 9780309089302
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Proceedings of the Workshop on Survey Automation convened by the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies on Apr. 15-16, 2002, held in Washington, D.C. Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-252). Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	For over 100 years, the evolution of modern survey methodology-using the theory of representative sampling to make interferences from a part of the population to the whole-has been paralleled by a drive toward automation, harnessing technology.
Other form:	Print version: Workshop on Survey Automation (2002 : Washington, D.C.). Survey automation. Washington, DC : National Academies Press, ©2003 0309089301

Table of Contents:

Current practice in documentation and testing
Shift from survey research to software engineering
Changing survey management processes to suit software design
Dealing with complexity: broadening the concept of documentation
Reducing insularity
Proceedings
Opening remarks
What makes the CAI testing and documentation problems so hard to solve? / Pat Doyle
Software engineering
the way to be / Jesse Poore
Automation and federal statistical surveys / Bob Groves
Understanding the documentation problem for complex Census Bureau computer assisted questionnaires / Thomas Piazza
The TADEQ project: documentation of electronic questionnaires / Jelke Bethlehem
Computer science approaches: visualization tools and software metrics / Thomas McCabe
Model-based testing in survey automation / Harry Robinson
Quality right from the start: the methodology of building testing into the product / Robert Smith
Interactive survey development: an integrated view / Lawrence Markosian
Practitioner needs and reactions to computer science approaches / Mark Pierzchala
Web-based data collection / Roger Tourangeau
Interface of survey methods with geographic information systems / Sarah Nusser
Prospects for survey data collection using pen-based computers / Jay Levinsohn and Martin Meyer
Panel discussion: how can computer science and survey methodology best interact in the future?

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