Margins of Error: A Study of Reliability in Survey Measurement

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Enhance the quality of survey results by recognizing and reducing measurement errors.

Margins of Error: A Study of Reliability in Survey Measurement demonstrates how and hwy identifying the presence and extent of measurement errors in survey data is essential for improving the overall collection and analysis of the data. The author outlines the consequences of ignoring survey measurement errors and also discusses ways to detect and estimate the impact of these errors. This book also provides recommendations of improving the quality of survey data.

Logically organized and clearly written, this book:

  • Deconstructs the data gathering process into six main elements of the response process: question adequacy, comprehension, accessibility, retrieval, motivation, and communication
  • Provides an exhaustive review of valuable reliability estimation techniques that can be applied to survey data
  • Identifies the types of questions and interviewer practices that are essential to the collection of reliable data
  • Addresses hypotheses regarding which survey questions, sources of information, and questionnaire formats produce the most reliable data

In conjunction with research data gathered on nearly 500 survey measures and the application of an empirical approach grounded in classical measurement theory, this book discusses the sources of measurement error and provides the tools necessary for improving survey data collection methods.

Margins of Error enables statisticians and researchers in the fields of public opinion and survey research to design studies that can detect, estimate, and reduce measurement errors that may have previously gone undetected. This book also serves as a supplemental textbook for both undergraduate and graduate survey methodology courses.

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But little effort has been undertaken to quantify the extent of unreliability in the types of measures typically used in population surveys to help us assess the extent of its biasing effects. To be blunt, our knowledge about the nature ...
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In this and subsequent chapters I discuss the issue of obtaining useful information in surveys and the problem of assessing the extent of measurement error and the factors that contribute to such errors.

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Margins of Error: A Study of Reliability in Survey Measurement
Duane F. Alwin
Priekšskatījums nav pieejams - 2007
Margins of Error: A Study of Reliability in Survey Measurement
Duane F. Alwin
Priekšskatījums nav pieejams - 2007

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Duane F. Alwin, PHD, is McCourtney Professor of Sociology and Demography and Director of the Center on Population Health and Aging at Pennsylvania State University. In addition to a concentration on survey methodology, his research interests include a wide range of phenomena concerned with the connection of human development and social change, as well as the impact of demographic and historical processes on individual cognitive, ideological, and attitudinal development. Dr. Alwin has published extensively in social science literature and is the recipient of more than two dozen prestigious awards, grants, and special university honors.

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NosaukumsMargins of Error: A Study of Reliability in Survey Measurement
Wiley Series in Survey Methodology
AutorsDuane F. Alwin
Izdevums:ilustrēts
IzdevējsJohn Wiley & Sons, 2007
ISBN0470146303, 9780470146309
Apjoms416 lappuses
  
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