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Documents the current state of the field, reports new research findings, and promotes interdisciplinary exchanges in modeling, assessing, and reducing measurement errors in surveys. The 32 contributed chapters are arranged within five sections: the questionnaire; respondents and responses; interviewers and other means of data collection; measurement errors in the interview process; and modeling measurement errors and their effects on estimation and data analysis. The chapters are based on papers presented at the International Conference on [title] held in Tucson, Arizona, November 1990. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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WILEY-INTERSCIENCE PAPERBACK SERIESThe 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 InstituteMeasurement 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.
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