Survey Methodology by Lepkowski, James M. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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COVER SERIES PAGE TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CHAPTER ONE: AN INTRODUCTION TO SURVEY METHODOLOGY

1.1 INTRODUCTION 1.2 A BRIEF HISTORY OF SURVEY RESEARCH 1.3 SOME EXAMPLES OF ONGOING SURVEYS 1.4 WHAT IS SURVEY METHODOLOGY? 1.5 THE CHALLENGE OF SURVEY METHODOLOGY 1.6 ABOUT THIS BOOK KEYWORDS FOR MORE IN-DEPTH READING EXERCISES

CHAPTER TWO: INFERENCE AND ERROR IN SURVEYS

2.1 INTRODUCTION 2.2 THE LIFE CYCLE OF A SURVEY FROM A DESIGN PERSPECTIVE 2.3 THE LIFE CYCLE OF A SURVEY FROM A QUALITY PERSPECTIVE 2.4 PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER 2.5 ERROR NOTIONS IN DIFFERENT KINDS OF STATISTICS 2.6 NONSTATISTICAL NOTIONS OF SURVEY QUALITY 2.7 SUMMARY KEYWORDS FOR MORE IN-DEPTH READING EXERCISES

CHAPTER THREE: TARGET POPULATIONS, SAMPLING FRAMES, AND COVERAGE ERROR

3.1 INTRODUCTION 3.2 POPULATIONS AND FRAMES 3.3 COVERAGE PROPERTIES OF SAMPLING FRAMES 3.4 ALTERNATIVE FRAMES FOR SURVEYS OF THE TARGET POPULATION OF HOUSEHOLDS OR PERSONS 3.5 FRAME ISSUES FOR OTHER COMMON TARGET POPULATIONS 3.6 COVERAGE ERROR 3.7 REDUCING UNDERCOVERAGE 3.8 SUMMARY KEYWORDS FOR MORE IN-DEPTH READING EXERCISES

CHAPTER FOUR: SAMPLE DESIGN AND SAMPLING ERROR

4.1 INTRODUCTION 4.2 SAMPLES AND ESTIMATES 4.3 SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING 4.4 CLUSTER SAMPLING 4.5 STRATIFICATION AND STRATIFIED SAMPLING 4.6 SYSTEMATIC SELECTION 4.7 COMPLICATIONS IN PRACTICE 4.8 SAMPLING U.S. TELEPHONE HOUSEHOLDS 4.9 SELECTING PERSONS WITHIN HOUSEHOLDS 4.10 SUMMARY KEYWORDS FOR MORE IN-DEPTH READING EXERCISES

CHAPTER FIVE: METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION

5.1 ALTERNATIVE METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION 5.2 CHOOSING THE APPROPRIATE METHOD 5.3 EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT DATA COLLECTION METHODS ON SURVEY ERRORS 5.4 USING MULTIPLE MODES OF DATA COLLECTION 5.5 SUMMARY KEYWORDS FOR MORE IN-DEPTH READING EXERCISES

CHAPTER SIX: NONRESPONSE IN SAMPLE SURVEYS

6.1 INTRODUCTION 6.2 RESPONSE RATES 6.3 IMPACT OF NONRESPONSE ON THE QUALITY OF SURVEY ESTIMATES 6.4 THINKING CAUSALLY ABOUT SURVEY NONRESPONSE ERROR 6.5 DISSECTING THE NONRESPONSE PHENOMENON 6.6 DESIGN FEATURES TO REDUCE UNIT NONRESPONSE 6.7 ITEM NONRESPONSE 6.8 ARE NONRESPONSE PROPENSITIES RELATED TO OTHER ERROR SOURCES? 6.9 SUMMARY KEYWORDS FOR MORE IN-DEPTH READING EXERCISES

CHAPTER SEVEN: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS IN SURVEYS

7.1 ALTERNATIVES METHODS OF SURVEY MEASUREMENT 7.2 COGNITIVE PROCESSES IN ANSWERING QUESTIONS 7.3 PROBLEMS IN ANSWERING SURVEY QUESTIONS 7.4 GUIDELINES FOR WRITING GOOD QUESTIONS 7.5 SUMMARY KEYWORDS FOR MORE IN-DEPTH READING EXERCISES

CHAPTER EIGHT: EVALUATING SURVEY QUESTIONS

8.1 INTRODUCTION 8.2 EXPERT REVIEWS 8.3 FOCUS GROUPS 8.4 COGNITIVE INTERVIEWS 8.5 FIELD PRETESTS AND BEHAVIOR CODING 8.6 RANDOMIZED OR SPLIT-BALLOT EXPERIMENTS 8.7 APPLYING QUESTION STANDARDS 8.8 SUMMARY OF QUESTION EVALUATION TOOLS 8.9 LINKING CONCEPTS OF MEASUREMENT QUALITY TO STATISTICAL ESTIMATES 8.10 SUMMARY KEYWORDS FOR MORE IN-DEPTH READING EXERCISES

CHAPTER NINE: SURVEY INTERVIEWING

9.1 THE ROLE OF THE INTERVIEWER 9.2 INTERVIEWER BIAS 9.3 INTERVIEWER VARIANCE 9.4 STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING INTERVIEWER BIAS 9.5 STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING INTERVIEWER-RELATED VARIANCE 9.6 THE CONTROVERSY ABOUT STANDARDIZED INTERVIEWING 9.7 INTERVIEWER MANAGEMENT 9.8 VALIDATING THE WORK OF INTERVIEWERS 9.9 THE USE OF RECORDED VOICES (AND FACES) IN DATA COLLECTION 9.10 SUMMARY KEYWORDS FOR MORE IN-DEPTH READING EXERCISES

CHAPTER TEN: POSTCOLLECTION PROCESSING OF SURVEY DATA

10.1 INTRODUCTION 10.2 CODING 10.3 ENTERING NUMERIC DATA INTO FILES 10.4 EDITING 10.5 WEIGHTING 10.6 IMPUTATION FOR ITEM-MISSING DATA 10.7 SAMPLING VARIANCE ESTIMATION FOR COMPLEX SAMPLES 10.8 SURVEY DATA DOCUMENTATION AND METADATA 10.9 SUMMARY KEYWORDS FOR MORE IN-DEPTH READING EXERCISES

CHAPTER ELEVEN: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES RELATED TO ETHICAL RESEARCH

11.1 INTRODUCTION 11.2 STANDARDS FOR THE CONDUCT OF RESEARCH 11.3 STANDARDS FOR DEALING WITH CLIENTS 11.4 STANDARDS FOR DEALING WITH THE PUBLIC 11.5 STANDARDS FOR DEALING WITH RESPONDENTS 11.6 EMERGING ETHICAL ISSUES 11.7 RESEARCH ABOUT ETHICAL ISSUES IN SURVEYS 11.8 ADMINISTRATIVE AND TECHNICAL PROCEDURES FOR SAFEGUARDING CONFIDENTIALITY 11.9 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS KEYWORDS FOR MORE IN-DEPTH READING EXERCISES

CHAPTER TWELVE: FAQS ABOUT SURVEY METHODOLOGY

12.1 INTRODUCTION 12.2 THE QUESTIONS AND THEIR ANSWERS

REFERENCES INDEX WILEY SERIES IN SURVEY METHODOLOGY