Survey research designs
Subtitle: towards a better understanding of their costs and benefits
By: prepared under the auspices of the Working Group on the Comparative Evaluation of Longitudinal Surveys, Social Science Research Council ; edited by R.W. Pearson and R.F. Boruch.
Contributors: Pearson, R. W.; Boruch, Robert F.; Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Working Group on the Comparative Evaluation of Longitudinal Surveys.
Series: Lecture notes in statistics ;; 38; Lecture notes in statistics (Springer-Verlag) ;; v. 38.
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 129
Subjects: Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology.; Social sciences -- Research -- Cost effectiveness.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Research designs and causal inferences : on Lord's paradox / Paul W. Holland and Donald B. Rubin; title: Toward conducting benefit-cost analysis of data programs / Bruce D. Spencer; title: The design and analysis of longitudinal surveys / Stephen E. Fienberg and Judith M. Tanur; title: The role of panel studies in a world of scarce research resources / Greg J. Duncan, F. Thomas Juster, and James N. Morgan.