Measurement Errors in Surveys

by Biemer, Paul P.; Groves, Robert M.; Lyberg, Lars E.; Mathiowetz, Nancy A.; Sudman, Seymour

• ISBN13: 9780471692805
• ISBN10: 0471692808
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-08-12
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

WILEY-INTERSCIENCE PAPERBACK SERIES The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists. " This book will be an aid to survey statisticians and to research workers who must work with survey data." - Short Book Reviews, International Statistical Institute Measurement Errors in Surveys documents the current state of the field, reports new research findings, and promotes interdisciplinary exchanges in modeling, assessing, and reducing measurement errors in surveys. Providing a fundamental approach to measurement errors, the book features sections on the questionnaire, respondents and responses, interviewers and other means of data collection, the respondent-interviewer relationship, and the effects of measurement errors on estimation and data analysis.

Author Biography

PAUL P. BIEMER, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina. <BR> ROBERT M. GROVES, PhD, is 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. <BR> LARS E. LYBERG, PhD, is Chief Scientist at Statistics Sweden in Stockholm. <BR> NANCY A. MATHIOWETZ, PhD, is Special Assistant Director for Statistical Design, Methodology, and Standards at the U.S. Bureau of the Census. <BR> SEYMOUR SUDMAN, PhD, is the Walter A. Stellner Professor of Marketing and Deputy Director of the Survey Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Table of Contents

Preface	xvii
Introduction	xxiii
William Kruskal
Measurement Error Across Disciplines	1	(28)
Robert M. Groves
SECTION A. THE QUESTIONNAIRE
The Current Status of Questionnaire Design	29	(12)
Norman M. Bradburn
Seymour Sudman
Response Alternatives: The Impact of Their Choice and Presentation Order	41	(16)
Norbert Schwarz
Hans-Jurgen Hippler
Context Effects in the General Social Survey	57	(16)
Tom W. Smith
Mode Effects of Cognitively Designed Recall Questions: A Comparison of Answers to Telephone and Mail Surveys	73	(22)
Don A. Dillman
John Tarnai
Nonexperimental Research on Question Wording Effects: A Contribution to Solving the Generalizability Problem	95	(18)
Nico Molenaar
Measurement Errors in Business Surveys	113	(14)
Solomon Dutka
Lester R. Frankel
SECTION B. RESPONDENTS AND RESPONSES
Recall Error: Sources and Bias Reduction Techniques	127	(18)
Donna Eisenhower
Nancy A. Mathiowetz
David Morganstein
Measurement Effects in Self vs. Proxy Response to Survey Questions: An Information-Processing Perspective	145	(22)
Johnny Blair
Geeta Menon
Barbara Bickart
An Alternative Approach to Obtaining Personal History Data	167	(18)
Barbara Means
Gary E. Swan
Jared B. Jobe
James L. Esposito
The Item Count Technique as a Method of Indirect Questioning: A Review of Its Development and a Case Study Application	185	(26)
Judith Droitcour
Rachel A. Caspar
Michael L. Hubbard
Teresa L. Parsley
Wendy Visscher
Trena M. Ezzati
Toward a Response Model in Establishment Surveys	211	(26)
W. Sherman Edwards
David Cantor
SECTION C. INTERVIEWERS AND OTHER MEANS OF DATA COLLECTION
Data Collection Methods and Measurement Error: An Overview	237	(22)
Lars Lyberg
Daniel Kasprzyk
Reducing Interviewer-Related Error Through Interviewer Training, Supervision, and Other Means	259	(20)
Floyd J. Fowler, Jr.
The Design and Analysis of Reinterview: An Overview	279	(24)
Gosta Forsman
Irwin Schreiner
Expenditure Diary Surveys and Their Associated Errors	303	(24)
Adriana R. Silberstein
Stuart Scott
A Review of Errors of Direct Observation in Crop Yield Surveys	327	(20)
Ron Fecso
Measurement Error in Continuing Surveys of the Grocery Retail Trade Using Electronic Data Collection Methods	347	(20)
John E. Donmyer
Frank W. Piotrowski
Kirk M. Wolter
SECTION D. MEASUREMENT ERRORS IN THE INTERVIEW PROCESS
Conversation with a Purpose---or Conversation? Interaction in the Standardized Interview	367	(26)
Nora Cate Schaeffer
Cognitive Laboratory Methods: A Taxonomy	393	(26)
Barbara H. Forsyth
Judith T. Lessler
Studying Respondent--Interviewer Interaction: The Relationship Between Interviewing Style, Interviewer Behavior, and Response Behavior	419	(20)
Johannes van der Zouwen
Wil Dijkstra
Johannes H. Smit
The Effect of Interviewer and Respondent Characteristics on the Quality of Survey Data: A Multilevel Model	439	(24)
Joop J. Hox
Edith D. de Leeuw
Ita G. G. Kreft
Interviewer, Respondent, and Regional Office Effects on Response Variance: A Statistical Decomposition	463	(24)
Daniel H. Hill
SECTION E. MODELING MEASUREMENT ERRORS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON ESTIMATION AND DATA ANALYSIS
Approaches to the Modeling of Measurement Errors	487	(30)
Paul Biemer
S. Lynne Stokes
A Mixed Model for Analyzing Measurement Errors for Dichotomous Variables	517	(14)
Jeroen Pannekoek
Models for Memory Effects in Count Data	531	(20)
Piet G. W. M. van Dosselaar
Simple Response Variance: Estimation and Determinants	551	(24)
Colm O'Muircheartaigh
Evaluation of Measurement Instruments Using a Structural Modeling Approach	575	(24)
Willem E. Saris
Frank M. Andrews
A Path Analysis of Cross-National Data Taking Measurement Errors Into Account	599	(18)
Ingrid M. E. Munck
Regression Estimation in the Presence of Measurement Error	617	(20)
Wayne A. Fuller
Chi-Squared Tests with Complex Survey Data Subject to Misclassification Error	637	(28)
J. N. K. Rao
D. Roland Thomas
The Effect of Measurement Error on Event History Analysis	665	(22)
D. Holt
J. W. McDonald
C. J. Skinner
References	687	(48)
Index	735