Survey Errors and Survey Costs

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ISBN: 9780471678519 | 0471678511
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Copyright: 4/30/2004

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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.

An Introduction to Survey Errors
Diverse Perspectives on Survey Research
The Themes of Integration: Errors and Costs
The Languages of Error
Classifications of Error Within Survey Statistics
Terminology of Errors in Psychological Measurement
The Language of Errors in Econometrics
Debates About Inferential Errors
Important features of language Differences
Summary: The Tyranny of the Measurable
Summary and Plan of This Book
An Introduction to Survey Costs
Rationale for a Joint Concern About Costs and Errors
Use of Cost and Error Models in Sample Design
Criticisms of Cost-Error Modeling to Guide Survey Decisions
Nonlinear Cost Models Often Apply to Practical Survey Administration
Survey Cost Models are Inherently Discontinuous
Cost Models Often Have Stochastic Features
Domains of Applicability of Cost Models Must Be Specified
Simulation Studies Might Be Best Suited to Design Decisions
Is Time Money?
Summary: Cost Models and Survey Errors
Costs and Errors of Covering the Population
Definitions of Populations Relevant to the Survey
Coverage Error in Descriptive Statistics
An Approach to Coverage Error in Analytic Statistics
Components of Coverage Error
Coverage Problems with the Target Population of Households
Measurement of and Adjustments for Noncoverage Error
Survey Cost Issues Involving Coverage Error
Summary
Nonresponse in Sample Surveys
Nonresponse Rates
Response Rate Calculation
Temporal Change in Response Rates
Item Missing Data
Statistical Treatment of Nonresponse in Surveys
Summary
Probing the Causes of Nonresponse and Efforts to Reduce Nonresponse
Empricial Correlates of Survey Participation
Efforts by Survey Methodologists to Reduce Refusals
Sociological Concepts Relevant to Survey Nonresponse
Psychological Attributes of Nonrespondents
Summary
Costs and Errors Arising from Sampling
Introduction
The nature of Sampling Error
Measuring Sampling Error
Four Effects of the Design on Sampling Error
The Effect of Nonsampling Errors on Sampling Error Estimates
Measuring Sampling Errors on Sample Means and Proportions from Complex Samples
The Debate on Reflecting the Sample Design in Estimating Analytic Statistics
Reflecting the Sample Design When Estimating Complex Statistics
Summary
Empirical Estimation of Survey Measurement Error
A First Estimation of Observational Errors Versus Errors of Nonobservation
Laboratory Experiments Resembling the Survey Interview
Measures External to the Survey
Randomized Assignment of Measurement Procedures to Sample Persons
Repeated measurements of the Same Persons
Summary of Individual Techniques of Measurement Errors Estimation
Combinations of Design Features
Summary
The Interviewer as a Source of Survey Measurement Error
Alternative Views on the Role of the Observer
The Roles of the Survey Interviewer
Designs for Measuring Interview Variance
Interviewer Effects in Personal Interview Surveys
Interviewer Effects in Centralized Telephone Surveys
Explaining the Magnitude of Interviewer Effects
Summary of Research on Interviewer Variance
Measurement of Interviewer Compliance With Training Guidelines
Experiments in Manipulating Interviewer Behavior
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