Design, evaluation, and analysis of questionnaires for survey research /
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| Author / Creator: | Saris, Willem E., author. |
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| Edition: | Second Edition. |
| Imprint: | Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2014] |
| Description: | xvii, 355 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Wiley series in survey methodology Wiley series in survey methodology. |
| Subject: | Social surveys. Social surveys -- Methodology. Questionnaires. Interviewing. Interviewing. Questionnaires. Social surveys. Social surveys -- Methodology. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9902813 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- The three-step procedure to design requests for an answer
- Concepts-by-postulation and concepts-by-intuition
- From social science concepts-by-intuition to assertions
- The formulation of requests for an answer
- Choices involved in questionnaire design
- Specific survey research features of requests for an answer
- Response alternatives
- The structure of open-ended and closed survey items
- Survey items in batteries
- Mode of data collection and other choices
- The effects of survey characteristics on data quality
- Criteria for the quality of survey measures
- Estimation of reliability, validity and method effects
- Split ballot mtmm designs
- Mtmm experiments and the quality of survey questions
- Applications in social science research
- The sqp 2.0 program for prediction of quality and the
- Improvement of measurement
- The quality of measures for concepts-by-postulation
- Correction for measurement errors
- Coping with measurement error in cross-cultural research
- References
- Index.