Design, evaluation, and analysis of questionnaires for survey research / Willem E. Saris, Irmtraud Gallhofer.
Material type: TextSeries: Wiley series in survey methodologyPublisher: Hoboken : Wiley, 2014Edition: Second editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Introduction -- The three-step procedure to design requests for an answer -- Concepts-by-postulation and concepts-by-intuition -- From social science concepts-by-intuition to assertions -- The formulation of requests for an answer -- Choices involved in questionnaire design -- Specific survey research features of requests for an answer -- Response alternatives -- The structure of open-ended and closed survey items -- Survey items in batteries -- Mode of data collection and other choices -- The effects of survey characteristics on data quality -- Criteria for the quality of survey measures -- Estimation of reliability, validity and method effects -- Split ballot mtmm designs -- Mtmm experiments and the quality of survey questions -- Applications in social science research -- The sqp 2.0 program for prediction of quality and the -- Improvement of measurement -- The quality of measures for concepts-by-postulation -- Correction for measurement errors -- Coping with measurement error in cross-cultural research -- References -- Index.
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