Survey Methodology and Missing Data [electronic resource] : Tools and Techniques for Practitioners /
Laaksonen, Seppo.author.
This book focuses on quantitative survey methodology, data collection and cleaning methods. Providing starting tools for using and analyzing a file once a survey has been conducted, it addresses fields as diverse as advanced weighting, editing, and imputation, which are not well-covered in corresponding survey books. Moreover, it presents numerous empirical examples from the author's extensive research experience, particularly real data sets from multinational surveys.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Concept of survey and key survey terms -- Designing a questionnaire and survey modes -- Sampling principles and missingness mechanisms -- Design effects at sampling phase -- Sampling design data file -- Missingness, its reasons and treatment -- Weighting adjustments due to unit missingness -- Special cases in weighting -- Statistical editing -- Introduction to statistical imputation -- Imputation methods for single variables -- Summary and key tasks of survey data cleaning -- Basic survey data analysis -- .
This book focuses on quantitative survey methodology, data collection and cleaning methods. Providing starting tools for using and analyzing a file once a survey has been conducted, it addresses fields as diverse as advanced weighting, editing, and imputation, which are not well-covered in corresponding survey books. Moreover, it presents numerous empirical examples from the author's extensive research experience, particularly real data sets from multinational surveys.
Statistics .
Sociology-Research.
Econometrics.
Psychometrics.
Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law.
Research Methodology.
Econometrics.
Psychometrics.
Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.