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| Imprint: | London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2002. |
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| Description: | 4 v. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sage benchmarks in social research methods |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5608987 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Methodological Context Of Surveys
- The Debate about Quantitative and Qualitative Research
- A Question of Method or Epistemology?
- Functionalism and the Survey
- The Relation of Theory and Method
- Gender, Methodology, and People's Ways of Knowing
- Some Problems with Feminism and the Paradigm Debate in Social Science
- Instrumental Positivism in American Sociology
- Problems with Survey
- Method or Epistemology?
- Sociological Analysis and the "Variable"
- Adequacy at the Level of Meaning
- Part 2. Ethical Context
- The Belmont Report - National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects in Research
- Ethical Principles for the Protection of Human Subjects in Research
- Sampling Strategies and the Threat to Privacy
- Private Lives and Public Policies
- Confidentiality and Accessibility of Government Services
- Statistical Disclosure Control in Practice
- Part 3. Institutional Contexts
- A Historical Perspective on the Institutional Bases for Survey Research in the United States
- Social Science Research and Policy-making in Britain
- Establishing a Dialogue
- The Research Relationship: Practice and Politics in Social Policy Research
- Social Research and Market Research
- A Critique of a Policy
- Social Research and Market Research
- A Critique of a Critique
- Part 4. Research Designs
- Some Observations on Study Design
- Cross Sectional Designs
- Household Panel Studies
- An Overview
- Studying Social Change with Survey Data Examples from Louis Harris Surveys
- Issues of Design and Analysis of Surveys Across Time
- Substantive Implications of Longitudinal Design Features
- The National Crime Survey as a Case Study
- Survey Materials Collected in the Developing Countries
- Sampling Measurement and Interviewing Obstacles to Intra-national and International Comparisons
- Generating New Information - United States General Accounting Office
- Why Don't Sociologists Make more Use of Official Statistics?
- Part 5. Collecting Survey Data
- Research on Interviewing Techniques
- Understanding the Standardized/Non-standardized Interviewing Controversy
- Theories and Methods of Telephone Surveys
- Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing
- A General Introduction
- Sampling for UK Telephone Surveys
- The Design and Administration of Mail Surveys
- Towards a Theory of Self-administered Questionnaire Design
- Web Surveys
- A Review of Issues and Approaches
- Polling Review Board Statement about Internet Polls - National Council on Public Polls (NCPP)
- Measuring Response Rates in Online Surveys
- Using E-Mail to Survey Internet Users in the United States
- Methodology and Assessment
- CASRO Internet Guidelines for Online Recruitment - CASRO
- Privacy Issues in Internet Surveys
- Spam and Research on the Internet
- Mixed Mode Surveys
- Report of the Committee on National Statistics - Subcommittee on Sharing Research Data
- Sharing Research Data
- Secondary Analysis of Survey Data
- Part 6. Sampling
- Sampling in the Twenty-First Century
- Some History and Reminiscences on Survey Sampling
- Statisticians Can Be Creative Too
- Horses for Courses
- How Survey Firms in Different Countries Measure Public Opinion with very Different Methods
- Part 7. Survey Error
- On Errors in Surveys
- Research on Survey Data Quality
- Part 8. Measurement Error
- Dirty Data in Britain and the USA
- The Reliability of "Invariant" Characteristics Reported in Surveys
- Convergent and Discriminant Validation by the Multitrait-multimethod Matrix
- Income Reporting Error in Surveys
- Cognitive Issues and Measurement Error
- Some Effects of "Social Desirability"
- Response Bias in Surveys of Mental Health
- An Empirical Investigation
- Acquiescence and Recency Response-order Effects in Interview Surveys
- Interviewer Effects on the Quality of Survey Data
- Social Distance and Interviewer Effects
- Gender-of-Interviewer Effects and Level of Public Support for Affirmative Action
- The Impact of the Presence of Others on a Respondent's Answers to Questions
- The Effect of Computer-Assisted Interviewing on Data Quality
- A Review
- Effects of Interview Mode on Measuring Depression in Younger Adults
- The Relationship between Mode of Administration and Quality of Data in Survey Research
- The Effect of the Question on Survey Responses
- A Review
- The Reliability of Recall Data
- A Literature Review
- How Comparative Is Comparative Research?
- Problems of Functional Equivalence of Measurements in Multinational Surveys
- The Critique of Official Statistics
- Improving Coding Reliability for Open-Ended Questions
- The In-Depth Testing of Survey Questions
- A Critical Appraisal of Methods
- Improving Survey Quality Through Pretesting
- Part 9. Coverage Error
- Coverage Errors Occurring Before Sample Selection - Subcommittee on Survey Coverage
- Call Screening
- Is it Really a Problem for Survey Research?
- Improving Random Respondent Selection in Telephone Surveys
- Testing Nine Hypotheses about Quota Sampling
- New Developments in the Sampling of Special Populations
- Part 10. Sampling Error
- Sample Size
- How Much Is Enough?
- Probability Sampling with Quotas
- Part 11. Non Response Error
- Survey Nonresponse, Measurement Error, and Data Quality
- An Introduction
- Socio-demographic Determinants of Response
- The Hidden 25 Percent
- An Analysis of Nonresponse on the 1980 General Social Survey
- Estimation of Nonresponse Bias
- International Response Trends
- Results of an International Survey
- Trends in Nonresponse Rates
- A Comparison of Nonresponse in Mail, Telephone, and Face-to-Face Surveys
- Applying Multilevel Modeling to Meta-Analysis
- Understanding the Decision to Participate in a Survey
- The Decline in Survey Response-A Social Values Interpretation
- Leverage-saliency Theory of Survey Participation
- Description and Illustration
- Respondent Burden
- A Test of Some Common Assumptions
- The Effect of Questionnaire Length on Response Rates
- A Review of the Literature
- Prenotification and Mail Survey Response Rates
- A Quantitative Integration of the Literature
- Estimating the Effect of Incentives on Mail Survey Response Rates
- A Meta-Analysis
- Informed Consent and Survey Response
- A Summary of the Empirical Literature
- Factors Affecting Response Rates to Mailed Questionnaires
- A Quantitative Analysis of the Published Literature
- Interviewers' Tactics for Fighting Survey Nonresponse
- An Overview of Nonresponse Issues in Telephone Survey
- Strategies for Reducing Nonresponse in a Longitudinal Panel Survey
- Nonresponse in Sociological Surveys
- A Review of some Methods for Handling the Problem
- Interpreting the Effects of Missing Data in Survey Research
- Reducing Missing Data in Surveys
- An Overview of Methods
- Minimizing Error Variance Introduced by Missing Data Routines in Survey Analysis
- Weighting to Adjust for Survey Nonresponse
- When to Weight
- Determining Nonresponse Bias in Survey Data
- A Comparison of Some Weighting Adjustment Methods for Panel Nonresponse
