Measurement Errors in Surveys.

• DOI: 10.2307/2074470
• Publication Date: 2006-05-07T23:29:42Z
• Authors: Judith M. Tanur; Paul P. Biemer; Robert M. Groves; Lars E. Lyberg; Nancy A. Mathiowetz; Seymour Sudman
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine

Partial table of contents: THE QUESTIONNAIRE. The Current Status of Questionnaire Design (N. Bradburn & S. Sudman). Context Effects in the General Social Survey (T. Smith). RESPONDENTS AND RESPONSES. Recall Error: Sources and Bias Reduction Techniques (D. Eisenhower, et al.). Toward a Response Model in Establishment Surveys (W. Edwards & D. Cantor). INTERVIEWERS AND OTHER MEANS OF DATA COLLECTION. The Design and Analysis of Reinterview: An Overview (G. Forsman & I. Schreiner). Expenditure Diary Surveys and Their Associated Errors (A. Silberstein & S. Scott). MEASUREMENT ERRORS IN THE INTERVIEW PROCESS. Cognitive Laboratory Methods: A Taxonomy (B. Forsyth & J. Lessler). The Effect of Interviewer and Respondent Characteristics on the Quality of Survey Data: A Multilevel Model (J. Hox, et al.). MODELING MEASUREMENT ERRORS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON ESTIMATION AND DATA ANALYSIS. Approaches to the Modeling of Measurement Errors (P. Biemer & S. Stokes). Evaluation of Measurement Instruments Using a Structural Modeling Approach (W. Saris & F. Andrews). Chi-Squared Tests with Complex Survey Data Subject to Misclassification Error (J. Rao & D. Thomas). References. Index.