Table of Contents

Partial table of contents: THE QUESTIONNAIRE. The Current Status of Questionnaire Design (N. Bradburn & S. Sudman). Context Effects in the General Social Survey (T. Smith). RESPONDENTS AND RESPONSES. Recall Error: Sources and Bias Reduction Techniques (D. Eisenhower, et al. ). Toward a Response Model in Establishment Surveys (W. Edwards & D. Cantor). INTERVIEWERS AND OTHER MEANS OF DATA COLLECTION. The Design and Analysis of Reinterview: An Overview (G. Forsman & I. Schreiner). Expenditure Diary Surveys and Their Associated Errors (A. Silberstein & S. Scott). MEASUREMENT ERRORS IN THE INTERVIEW PROCESS. Cognitive Laboratory Methods: A Taxonomy (B. Forsyth & J. Lessler). The Effect of Interviewer and Respondent Characteristics on the Quality of Survey Data: A Multilevel Model (J. Hox, et al. ). MODELING MEASUREMENT ERRORS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON ESTIMATION AND DATA ANALYSIS. Approaches to the Modeling of Measurement Errors (P. Biemer & S. Stokes). Evaluation of Measurement Instruments Using a Structural Modeling Approach (W. Saris & F. Andrews). Chi-Squared Tests with Complex Survey Data Subject to Misclassification Error (J. Rao & D. Thomas). References. Index.

About the Author

About the editors PAUL P. BIEMER has been Principal Scientist at Research Triangle Institute since 1991. His prior experience includes: Head of the Department of Experimental Statistics and Director of the University Statistics Center at New Mexico State University (1986?91) and administrator/researcher at the U.S. Bureau of the Census (1978?86). ROBERT M. GROVES is presently Associate Director for Statistical Design, Methodology, and Standards, Department of Commerce, U.S. Bureau of the Census. He has taught at the University of Michigan since 1975 and is author of several books, the most recent of which is Survey Errors and Survey Costs (Wiley, 1989). LARS E. LYBERG is Head of the Secretariat for International Research at Statistics Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden, where he has worked since 1968. He is also Chief Editor of the Journal of Official Statistics. Dr. Lyberg is President-Elect (1993) of the International Association of Survey Statisticians. NANCY A. MATHIOWETZ is Special Assistant Director for Statistical Design, Methodology, and Standards at the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Prior to joining the Census Bureau in 1990, Dr. Mathiowetz worked at Westat and the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. SEYMOUR SUDMAN is the Walter A. Stellner Professor of Marketing and Deputy Director of the Survey Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is past President of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.