The total survey error approach : a guide to the new science of survey research / Herbert F. Weisberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weisberg, Herbert F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social surveys.

Social sciences--Research.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1939, George Gallup's American Institute of Public Opinion published a pamphlet optimistically titled The New Science of Public Opinion Measurement. At the time, though, survey research was in its infancy, and only now, six decades later, can public opinion measurement be appropriately called a science, based in part on the development of the total survey error approach. Herbert F. Weisberg's handbook presents a unified method for conducting good survey research centered on the various types of errors that can occur in surveys-from measurement and nonresponse error to co

Contents:

Contents; Preface; PART I Survey Error Theory; 1 Scientific Survey Research; 2 Survey Error; 3 Survey Modes; PART II Response Accuracy Issues; 4 Measurement Error Due to Interviewers; 5 Measurement Error Due to Respondents, I; 6 Measurement Error Due to Respondents, II; 7 Nonresponse Error at the Item Level; PART III Respondent Selection Issues; 8 Nonresponse Error at the Unit Level; 9 Coverage Error; 10 Sampling Error; PART IV Survey Administration Issues; 11 Postsurvey Error; 12 Mode Differences; 13 Comparability Effects; PART V Total Survey Error; 14 Ethics in Surveys; 15 Survey Errors

Appendix: Meta-analysisNotes; References; Name Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-369) and index.

ISBN:

9786612679384

9781282679382

1282679384

9780226891293

0226891291

OCLC:

648759808