Measurement Errors in Surveys

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WILEY-INTERSCIENCE PAPERBACK SERIESThe Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selectedbooks that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effortto increase global appeal and general circulation. With these newunabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives ofthese works by making them available to future generations ofstatisticians, mathematicians, and scientists."This book will be an aid to survey statisticians and toresearch workers who must work with survey data."Short Book Reviews, International Statistical InstituteMeasurement Errors in Surveys documents the current state of thefield, reports new research findings, and promotesinterdisciplinary exchanges in modeling, assessing, and reducingmeasurement errors in surveys. Providing a fundamental approach tomeasurement errors, the book features sections on thequestionnaire, respondents and responses, interviewers and othermeans of data collection, the respondent-interviewer relationshipand the effects of measurement errors on estimation and dataanalysis.

Preface.Introduction (W. Kruskal).1. Measurement Error Across Disciplines (R. Groves).SECTION A: THE QUESTIONAIRE.2. The Current Status of Questionnaire Design (N. Bradburn &S. Sudman).3. Response Alternatives: The Impact of Their Choice andPresentation Order (N. Schwarz & H. Hippler).4. Context Effects in the General Social Survey (T. Smith).5. Mode Effects of Cognitively Designed Recall Questions: AComparison of Answers to Telephone and Mail Surveys (D. Dillman& J. Tarnai).6. Nonexperimental Research on Question Wording Effects: AContribution to Solving the Generalizability Problem (N.Molenaar).7. Measurement Errors in Business Surveys (S. Dutka & L.Frankel).SECTION B: RESPONDENTS AND RESPONSES.8. Recall Error: Sources and Bias Reduction Techniques (D.Eisenhower, et al.).9. Measurement Effects in Self vs. Proxy Response to SurveyQuestions: An Information-Processing Perspective (J. Blair, etal.).10. An Alternative Approach to Obtaining Personal History Data(B. Means, et al.).11. The Item Count Technique as a Method of IndirectQuestioning: A Review of Its Development and a Case StudyApplication (J. Droitcour, et al.).12. Toward a Response Model in Establishment Surveys (W. Edwards& D. Cantor).SECTION C: INTERVIEWERS AND OTHER MEANS OF DATA COLLECTION.13. Data Collection Methods and Measurement Error: An Overview(L. Lyberg & D. Kasprzyk).14. Reducing Inte5rviewer-Related Error Through InterviewerTraining, Supervision, and Other Means (F. Fowler).15. The Design and Analysis of Reinterview: An Overview (G.Forsman & I. Schreiner).16. Expenditure Diary Surveys and Their Associated Errors (A.Silberstein & S. Scott).17. A Review of Errors of Direct Observation in Crop YieldSurveys (R. Fecso).18. Measurement Error in Continuing Surveys of the GroceryRetail Trade Using Electronic Data Collection Methods (J. Donmyer,et al.).SECTION D: MEASUREMENT ERRORS IN THE INTERVIEW PROCESS.19. Conversation with a Purpose--or Conversation?Interaction in the Standardized Interview (N. Schaeffer).20. Cognitive Laboratory Methods: A Taxonomy (B. Forsyth &J. Lessler).21. Studying Respondent-Interviewer Interaction: TheRelationship Between Interviewing Style, Interviewer Behavior, andResponse Behavior (J. van der Zouwen, et al.).22. The Effect of Interviewer and Respondent Characteristics onthe Quality of Survey Data: A Multilevel Model (J. Hox, etal.).23. Interviewer, Respondent, and Regional Office Effects onResponse Variance: A Statistical Decomposition (D. Hill).SECTION E: MODELING MEASUREMENT ERRORS AND THEIR EFFECTS ONESTIMATION AND DATA ANALYSIS.24. Approaches to the Modeling of Measurement Errors (P. Biemer& L. Stokes).25. A Mixed Model for Analyzing Measurement Errors forDichotomous Variables (J. Pannekoek).26. Models for Memory Effects in Count Data (P. vanDosselaar).27. Simple Response Variance: Estimation and Determinants (C.O'Muircheartaigh).28. Evaluation of Measurement Instruments Using a StructuralModeling Approach (W. Saris & F. Andrews).29. A Path Analysis of Cross-National Data Taking MeasurementErrors Into Account (I. Munck).30. Regression Estimation in the Presence of Measurement Error(W. Fuller).31. Chi-Squared Tests with Complex Survey Data Subject toMisclassification Error (J. Rao & D. Thomas).32. The Effect of Measurement Error on Event History Analysis(D. Holt, et al.).References.Index.