Survey Measurement and Process Quality / Edition 1

by Lars E. Lyberg, Paul P. Biemer, Martin Collins, Edith D. de Leeuw, Cathryn Dippo

Overview

An in-depth look at current issues, new research findings, andinterdisciplinary exchange in survey methodology andprocessing

Survey Measurement and Process Quality extends the marriage oftraditional survey issues and continuous quality improvementfurther than any other contemporary volume. It documents thecurrent state of the field, reports new research findings, andpromotes interdisciplinary exchange in questionnaire design, datacollection, data processing, quality assessment, and effects oferrors on estimation and analysis.

The book's five sections discuss a broad range of issues and topicsin each of five major areas, including
* Questionnaire design—conceptualization, design of rating scalesfor effective measurement, self-administered questionnaires, andmore
* Data collection—new technology, interviewer effects, interviewmode, children as respondents
* Post-survey processing and operations—modeling of classificationoperations, coding based on such systems, editing, integratingprocesses
* Quality assessment and control—total quality management,developing current best methods, service quality, quality effortsacross organizations
* Effects of misclassification on estimation, analysis, andinterpretation—misclassification and other measurement errors, newvariance estimators that account for measurement error, estimatorsof nonsampling error components in interview surveys

Survey Measurement and Process Quality is an indispensable resourcefor survey practitioners and managers as well as an excellentsupplemental text for undergraduate and graduate courses andspecial seminars.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471165590
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	02/24/1997
Series:	Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics , #324
Pages:	808
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.69(h) x 1.66(d)

About the Author

Lars E. Lyberg, PhD, is Chief Scientist at Statistics Sweden. They both have co-edited, with others, Measurement Errors in Surveys, Survey Measurement and Process Quality, and Telephone Survey Methodology - all published by Wiley.

Paul P. Biemer is a distinguished Fellow at RTI International, and Assistant Director for Survey Research at the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Table of Contents

Partial table of contents:

QUESTIONNAIRE DESIGN.

From Theoretical Concept to Survey Question (J. Hox).

Designing Rating Scales for Effective Measurement in Surveys (J.Krosnick & L. Fabrigar).

DATA COLLECTION.

Developing a Speech Recognition Application for Survey Research (B.Blyth).

Children as Respondents: Methods for Improving Data Quality (J.Scott).

POST SURVEY PROCESSING AND OPERATIONS.

Integrated Control Systems for Survey Processing (J.Bethlehem).

QUALITY ASSESSMENT AND CONTROL.

Continuous Quality Improvement in Statistical Agencies (D.Morganstein & D. Marker).

ERROR EFFECTS ON ESTIMATION, ANALYSES, AND INTERPRETATION.

Categorical Data Analysis and Misclassification (J. Kuha & C.Skinner).

Index.

Editorial Reviews

A selection of 33 papers from a conference in Bristol, England, in April 1995 called to further the integration of process quality with the practices of taking surveys. They cover questionnaire design; data collection; mail survey processing and operations; quality assessment and control; and error effects on estimating analysis, and interpretation. For survey practitioners and managers, and undergraduate and graduate students in fields that take surveys. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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