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Assessing the quality of survey data / Jorg Blasius & Victor Thiessen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blasius, Jörg, 1957-
- Series:
- Research Methods for Social Scientists
- Research methods for social scientists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social surveys--Methodology.
- Social surveys.
- Social sciences--Statistical methods.
- Social sciences.
- Social sciences--Research--Methodology.
- Correspondence analysis (Statistics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 174 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a book for any researcher using any kind of survey data. It introduces the latest methods of assessing the quality and validity of such data by providing new ways of interpreting variation and measuring error.
- Contents:
- Cover; contents; about the authors; list of acronyms and sources of data; preface; 1 Conceptualizing data quality; 2 Empirical findings on quality and comparability of survey data; 3 Statistical techniques for data screening; 4 Institutional quality control practices; 5 Substantive or methodology-induced factors?; 6 Item difficulty and response quality; 7 Questionnaire architecture; 8 Cognitive competencies and response quality; 9 Conclusion; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [164]-172) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4462-9232-0
- 1-4462-5872-6
- 1-4462-5187-X
- 1-299-65749-4
- OCLC:
- 847624810
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