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| Imprint: | London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2004. |
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| Description: | 4 v. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Questionnaires. Interviewing. Interviewing in sociology. Questionnaires -- Methodology. Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology. Social surveys -- Methodology. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5152470 |
Table of Contents:
- Volume 1.
- Editor's Introduction
- Questionnaires
- Part 1. Orientation
- Part 1. General
- Asking and Answering
- Why Ask?
- What's in a Question?
- A Content Analysis of Survey Questions
- The Formulation of Questions
- Interviews versus Questionnaires
- Comparisons of Interviews with Questionnaires for Measuring Mothers' Attitudes toward Sex and Aggression
- Effects of Questionnaire Design on the Quality of Survey Data
- Asking the Age Question
- A Research Note
- Checks to Ensure that Questions Work as Intended
- Section 2. Open And Closed
- Who Left It Open?
- A Description of the Free-Answer Question and its Demerits
- The Controversy Over Detailed Interviews
- An Offer for Negotiation
- Strong Arguments and Weak Evidence
- The Open/Closed Questioning Controversy of the 1940s
- The Open and Closed Question
- Two Problems in the Use of the Open Question
- Polling, Open Interviewing and the Problem of Interpretation
- Section 3. Opinions And Attitudes
- Attitudes versus Actions
- Problems in the Use of the Survey Questions to Measure Public Opinion
- The Meaning of Opinion
- No Opinion, Don't Know and Maybe No Answer
- Section 4. Measurement
- The Measurement of Social Attitudes
- Vague Quantifiers
- Teaching Data Collection in Social Survey Research
- How Comparative Is Comparative Research?
- The In-Depth Testing of Survey Questions
- A Critical Appraisal of Methods
- Bringing Partiality to Light
- Question Wording and Choice as Indicators Of Bias
- Volume 2.
- Part 2. Question Construction
- Experimental Evidence on Question Design
- The Quintamensional Plan of Question Design
- Experiments in the Wording of Questions
- Does the Question Form Influence Public Opinion Poll Results?
- Consumer and Opinion Research
- Experimental Studies on the Form of the Question
- How Interviewer Effects Operate Through Question Form
- The Effect of Question Order on Responses
- Effects of Question Order on Survey Responses
- Question Order and Fair Play
- Evidence of Even-Handedness in Rural Surveys
- It Was Party Identification All Along
- Question Order Effects on Reports of Party Identification in Britain
- Question-Order Effects on Presidential Popularity
- Measuring Levels of Party Identification
- Does Question Order Matter?
- Measuring the Third-Person Effect of News
- The Impact of Question Order, Contrast and Knowledge
- Impact of Question Order on Third-Person Effect
- Question Order Effects on Subjective Measures of Quality of Life
- Part-Whole Question Order Effects
- Views of Rurality
- Question Wording and Reports of Survey Results
- The Case of Louis Harris and Associates and Aetna Life and Casualty
- Question Wording and Public Support for Contra Aid, 1983-1986
- Wanted
- Rules for Wording Structured Questionnaires
- Symbols in Survey Questions
- Solving the Problems of Multiple Word Meanings
- The Measurement of a Middle Position in Attitude Surveys
- The Effects of Offering a Middle Response Option with Opinion Questions
- Experiments with the Middle Response Alternative in Survey Questions
- Asking Comparative Questions
- The Impact of the Direction of Comparison
- The Acquiescence Quagmire
- Measuring Attitudes
- Volume 3.
- Part 3. Methodological Issues
- Section 1. Sensitive Questions
- Asking the Embarrassing Question
- The Use of Leading Questions in Non-Schedule Interviews
- A Use for Leading Questions in Research Interviewing
- How to Ask Questions about Drinking and Sex
- Response Effects in Measuring Consumer Behavior
- Reducing Refusal Rates in the Case of Threatening Questions
- The 'Door-in-the-Face' Technique
- Question Threat and Response Bias
- A Classification of Biased Questions
- Asking Sensitive Questions on Surveys
- Section 2. Fictitious Questions
- May We Presume?
- A Lecture on Taking Too Much for Granted
- Opinions on Fictitious Issues
- The Pressure to Answer Survey Questions
- Section 3. Various Design Issues
- Context Effects on Survey Responses to Questions about Abortion
- The Effect of Response Categories on Questionnaire Answers
- Context and Mode Effects
- Political Information Processing
- Question Order and Context Effects
- Equivalence of Questionnaire Items with Varying Response Formats
- Effects of Filter Questions in Public Opinion Surveys
- The Yes-No Question Answering System and Statement Verification
- Effects of Presenting One Versus Two Sides of an Issue in Survey Questions
- An Application of Rasch Analysis to Questionnaire Design
- Using Vignettes to Study the Meaning of 'Work' in the Current Population Survey
- Testimony Validity as a Function of Question Form, Atmosphere and Item Difficulty
- Attitudes and Non-Attitudes
- Continuation of a Dialogue
- Part 4. Validity
- Fixed-Choice Questionnaires
- Learning How To Ask
- Native Metacommunicative Competence and the Incompetence of Fieldworkers
- Validity of Responses to Survey Questions
- Has Racism Declined in America? It Depends on Who Is Asking and What Is Asked
- The Random Probe
- A Technique for Evaluating the Validity of Closed Questions
- Volume 4.
- Part 1. Surveys In The World
- Data Construction
- Basic Concepts
- Section 1. Memory And Recall
- The Limitations of Human Memory
- Implications for the Design of Retrospective Surveys
- Retrospective Data in Survey Research
- The Retrospective Question
- Leading Questions and the Eye Witness Report
- Since the Eruption of Mount St Helens, Has Anyone Beaten You Up? Improving the Accuracy of Retrospective Reports with Landmark Events
- My Memory
- A Study of Autobiographical Memory Over Six Years
- Section 2. Striving To Improve Questions And Questionnaires
- Predicting Test-Retest Reliability From Behavior Coding
- Latent Class Analysis of Survey Questions That Include Don't Know Responses
- Monitoring Maternity Services by Postal Questionnaire
- Congruity Between Mothers' Reports and their Obstetric Records
- New Quantitative Techniques for Pretesting Survey Questions
- Pretesting in Questionnaire Design
- A Review of the Literature and Suggestions for Further Research
- An Empirical Evaluation of In-Depth Probes Used To Pretest Survey Questions
- Improving Coding Reliability for Open-Ended Questions
- Section 3. Grappling With Question Design In The Real World
- Diagnostics for Redesigning Survey Questionnaires
- Measuring Work in the Current Population Survey
- Measurement in Subjective Health Assessment
- Themes and Prospects
- Analysing Drug Abuse with British Crime Survey Data
- Modelling and Questionnaire Design Issues
- Section 4. New Developments In A Changing World
- Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing in Survey Research
- Technological Innovations in Data Collection
- Acceptance, Data Quality and Costs
- Web Survey Design and Administration
- Navigating the Rapids of Change
- Some Observations on Survey Methodology in the Early Twenty First Century
