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Design, evaluation, and analysis of questionnaires for survey research / (Record no. 418792)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
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003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field ISI Library, Kolkata
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20150113131829.0
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781118634615 (cloth)
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency ISI Library
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 300.723
Edition number 23
Item number Sa245
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Saris, Willem E.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Design, evaluation, and analysis of questionnaires for survey research /
Statement of responsibility, etc Willem E. Saris and Irmtraud N. Gallhofer.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 2nd ed
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New Jersey :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc John Wiley :
Date of publication, distribution, etc c2014.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvii, 355 p. :
Other physical details ill. ;
Dimensions 25 cm.
490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Wiley series in survey methodology
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Preface -- <br/>Introduction -- <br/>The three-step procedure to design requests for an answer -- <br/>Concepts-by-postulation and concepts-by-intuition -- <br/>From social science concepts-by-intuition to assertions -- <br/>The formulation of requests for an answer -- <br/>Choices involved in questionnaire design -- <br/>Specific survey research features of requests for an answer -- <br/>Response alternatives -- <br/>The structure of open-ended and closed survey items -- <br/>Survey items in batteries -- <br/>Mode of data collection and other choices -- <br/>The effects of survey characteristics on data quality -- <br/>Criteria for the quality of survey measures -- <br/>Estimation of reliability, validity and method effects -- <br/>Split ballot mtmm designs -- <br/>Mtmm experiments and the quality of survey questions -- <br/>Applications in social science research -- <br/>The sqp 2.0 program for prediction of quality and the -- <br/>Improvement of measurement -- <br/>The quality of measures for concepts-by-postulation -- <br/>Correction for measurement errors -- <br/>Coping with measurement error in cross-cultural research -- <br/><br/>References -- <br/>Index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc The Second Edition of Design, Evaluation, and Analysis of Questionnaires for Survey Research continues to provide cutting–edge analysis of the important decisions researchers make throughout the survey design process. The new edition covers the essential methodologies and statistical tools utilized to create reliable and accurate survey questionnaires, which unveils the relationship between individual question characteristics and overall question quality. Since the First Edition , the computer program Survey Quality Prediction (SQP) has been updated to include new predictions of the quality of survey questions on the basis of analyses of Multi–Trait Multi–Method experiments.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social surveys.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social surveys
General subdivision Methodology.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Questionnaires.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Interviewing.
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Gallhofer, Irmtraud N.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type Books
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