Survey data collection and integration Cristina Davino, Luigi Fabbris, editors

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davino, Cristina

Fabbris, Luigi

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sampling (Statistics).

Surveys--Methodology.

Surveys.

Social sciences--Methodology.

Social sciences.

Questionnaires.

Statistics as Topic.

Surveys and Questionnaires.

questionnaires.

Statistics.

Medical Subjects:

Statistics as Topic.

Surveys and Questionnaires.

Genre:

dissertations

Academic theses

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg New York Springer [2013]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

Statistical surveys represent an important source of scientific knowledge and a valid decision support tool in many fields, from social studies to economics, market research, health studies, and others. Scientists have tackled most of the methodological issues concerning surveys and the scientific literature offers excellent proposals for planning and conducting surveys. Nevertheless, surveys often require the achievement of aims that either deviate from the methodology or do not have a specific solution at all. This book focuses on survey theory and applications, providing insight and innovative solutions to face problems in data collection and integration, complex sample design, opinion questionnaire design, and statistical estimation. Formal rigour and simple language, together with real-life examples, will make the book suitable to both practitioners involved in applied research and to academics interested in scientific developments in the survey field

Contents:

Surveys: critical points, challenges and need for development / Luigi Biggeri

Measurement scales for scoring or ranking sets of interrelated items / Luigi Fabbris

Assessing multi-item scales for subjective measurement / Cristina Davino and Rosaria Romano

Statistical tools in the joint analysis of closed and open-ended questions / Simona Balbi and Nicole Triunfo

The use of self-anchoring scales in social research: the Cantril scale for the evaluation of community action orientation / Immacolata Di Napoli and Caterina Arcidiacono

Small area estimation of poverty indicators / Monica Pratesi, Caterina Giusti and Stefano Marchetti

Non-sampling errors in household surveys: the Bank of Italy's experience / Giovanni D'Alessio and Giuseppe Hardi

Enriching a large-scale survey from a representative sample by data fusion: models and validation / Tomàs Aluja-Banet, Josep Daunis-i-Estadella and Yan Hong Chen

A business survey on job vacancies: integration with other sources and calibration / Diego Bellisai, Stefania Fivizzani and Marina Sorrentino

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

9783642213083

3642213081

9781283740647

1283740648

OCLC:

889209683

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license