عنوان

Assessing the quality of survey data /

(Number (ISBN

1849203318

(Number (ISBN

1849203326

(Number (ISBN

9781849203319

(Number (ISBN

9781849203326

Number

b422376

Title Proper

Assessing the quality of survey data /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Jörg Blasius & Victor Thiessen

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Thousand Oaks, Calif. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Sage Publications,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2012

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 174 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

25 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [164]-172) and index

Text of Note

Conceptualizing data quality : respondent attributes, study architecture, and institutional practices -- Empirical findings on quality and comparability of survey data -- Statistical techniques for data screening -- Institutional quality control practices -- Substantive or methodology-induced factors? : a comparison of PCA, CatPCA, and MCA solutions -- Item difficulty and response quality -- Questionnaire architecture -- Cognitive competencies and response quality

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Text of Note

"This book introduces the latest methods for assessing the quality and validity of survey data by providing new ways of interpreting variation and measuring error. By practically and accessibly demonstrating these techniques, especially those derived from Multiple Correspondence Analysis, the authors develop screening procedures to search for variation in observed responses that do not correspond with actual differences between respondents. Using well-known international data sets, the authors show how to detect all manner of non-substantive variation from response styles including acquiescence, respondents' failure to understand questions, inadequate field work standards, interview fatigue, and even the manufacture of (partly) faked interviews."--Publisher's website

Correspondence analysis (Statistics)

Social sciences-- Research-- Methodology

Social sciences-- Statistical methods

Social surveys-- Methodology

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Blasius, Jörg,1957-

Thiessen, Victor

Date of Transaction

20121126110201.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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