Survey Errors and Survey Costs

Robert M Groves - Collection Wiley Series in Survey Methodology

590 pages, parution le 18/08/2004

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Résumé

Presents a comprehensive treatment of survey errors and the costs and benefits of alternative survey designs, integrating statistical and social science perspectives on survey design. Considers coverage error, nonresponse error, sampling error, and measurement error, including the effects of interviewers and respondents, the wording of the questionnaire, and mode of data collection. A review of the social science and statistical literatures on survey errors is included, and the relationships between the different types of errors are explored. Presents cost models designed to reduce the various types of errors.

L'auteur - Robert M Groves

Robert M. Groves, PhD, is presently Program Director (Senior Research Scientist) in the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan, where he also serves as Director in the Institute for Social Research and Professor of Sociology. He also holds a joint appointment as Research Professor at the University of Maryland.

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An Introduction to Survey Errors
An Introduction to Survey Costs
Costs and Errors of Covering the Population
Nonresponse in Sample Surveys
Probing the Causes of Nonresponse and Efforts to Reduce Nonresponse
Costs and Errors Arising from Sampling
Empirical Estimation of Survey Measurement Error
The Interviewer as a Source of Survey Measurement Error
The Respondent as a Source of Measurement Error
Measurement Errors Associated with the Questionnaire
Response Effects of the Mode of Data Collection

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Wiley
Auteur(s)	Robert M Groves
Collection	Wiley Series in Survey Methodology
Parution	18/08/2004
Nb. de pages	590
Format	15 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	950g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780471678519