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003			ISI Library, Kolkata
005			20150113131829.0
008			131107s2014 nju b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781118634615 (cloth)
040			_aISI Library
082	0	0	_a300.723 _223 _bSa245
100	1		_aSaris, Willem E.
245	1	0	_aDesign, evaluation, and analysis of questionnaires for survey research / _cWillem E. Saris and Irmtraud N. Gallhofer.
250			_a2nd ed
260			_aNew Jersey : _bJohn Wiley : _cc2014.
300			_axvii, 355 p. : _bill. ; _c25 cm.
490			_aWiley series in survey methodology
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPreface -- Introduction -- The three-step procedure to design requests for an answer -- Concepts-by-postulation and concepts-by-intuition -- From social science concepts-by-intuition to assertions -- The formulation of requests for an answer -- Choices involved in questionnaire design -- Specific survey research features of requests for an answer -- Response alternatives -- The structure of open-ended and closed survey items -- Survey items in batteries -- Mode of data collection and other choices -- The effects of survey characteristics on data quality -- Criteria for the quality of survey measures -- Estimation of reliability, validity and method effects -- Split ballot mtmm designs -- Mtmm experiments and the quality of survey questions -- Applications in social science research -- The sqp 2.0 program for prediction of quality and the -- Improvement of measurement -- The quality of measures for concepts-by-postulation -- Correction for measurement errors -- Coping with measurement error in cross-cultural research -- References -- Index.
520			_aThe 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	_aSocial surveys.
650		0	_aSocial surveys _xMethodology.
650		0	_aQuestionnaires.
650		0	_aInterviewing.
700			_aGallhofer, Irmtraud N.
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