Assessing the quality of survey data
By: Jörg Blasius & Victor Thiessen
Contributors: Thiessen, Victor
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781849203326; 9781849203319
Subjects: Statistical methods; Methodology; Correspondence analysis (Statistics); Social sciences; Social surveys; Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [164]-172) and index.
Table of contents: title: Conceptualizing data quality : respondent attributes, study architecture, and institutional practices; title: Empirical findings on quality and comparability of survey data; title: Statistical techniques for data screening; title: Institutional quality control practices; title: Substantive or methodology-induced factors? : a comparison of PCA, CatPCA, and MCA solutions; title: Item difficulty and response quality; title: Questionnaire architecture; title: Cognitive competencies and response quality.