Worth purchasing if you plan on doing a lot of text analysis in your career. What people say is not what they do. Beware of using recall data as proxies for actual behavior patterns. A review of the accuracy literature pre-1984. The construction of primary data in cultural anthropology.
All data is constructed.
Reviews different types of data commonly collected by social scientists. Weller, Susan and A. Kimball Romney 1988 Systematic data collection. The most comprehensive book for understanding how to collect and analyze free lists, pile sorts, triads, frame substitution, and other systematic data collection techniques. The successive pile sort. Describes how to conduct successive pile sorts.