Handbook of survey methodology for the social sciences - Gideon, Lior (New York Springer, 2012)
Introduction / Lior Gideon -- Classification of Surveys / Ineke Stoop and Eric Harrison -- Survey Research Ethics / Robert W. Oldendick -- An Overlooked Approach in Survey Research: Total Survey Error / René Bautista -- Common Survey Sampling Techniques / Mary Hibberts, R. Burke Johnson and Kenneth Hudson -- Frames, Framing Effects, and Survey Responses / Loretta J. Stalans -- The Art of Question Phrasing / Lior Gideon -- Interviewing / Lior Gideon and Peter Moskos -- Unit Non-Response Due to Refusal / Ineke Stoop -- Non-Response and Measurement Error / Jaak Billiet and Hideko Matsuo -- Why People Agree to Participate in Surveys / Gerald Albaum and Scott M. Smith -- Respondents Cooperation: Demographic Profile of Survey Respondents and Its Implication / Patrick Glaser -- Effects of Incentives in Surveys / Vera Toepoel -- Designing the Face-to-Face Survey / W. Lawrence Neuman -- Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys Using FTF / Ineke Stoop and Eric Harrison -- Costs and Errors in Fixed and Mobile Phone Surveys / Vasja Vehovar, Ana Slavec and Nejc Berzelak -- Mail Survey in Social Research / Alana Henninger and Hung-En Sung -- E-Mail Surveys / Gustavo Mesch -- Increasing Response Rate in Web-Based/Internet Surveys / Amber N. Manzo and Jennifer M. Burke -- Building Your Own Online Panel Via E-Mail and Other Digital Media / Vera Toepoel -- Does Paying More Mean Getting a Better Product: Comparison of Modes of Survey Administration / Beau Shine and Brandon Dulisse -- Sensitive Issues in Surveys: Reducing Refusals While Increasing Reliability and Quality of Responses to Sensitive Survey Items / Susan McNeeley -- Researching Difficult Populations: Interviewing Techniques and Methodological Issues in Face-to-Face Interviews in the Study of Organized Crime / Jana Arsovska -- What Survey Modes are Most Effective in Eliciting Self-Reports of Criminal or Delinquent Behavior? / Gary Kleck and Kelly Roberts -- Issues in Survey Design: Using Surveys of Victimization and Fear of Crime as Examples / Sue-Ming Yang and Joshua C. Hinkle -- What Would You Do? Conducting Web-Based Factorial Vignette Surveys / Hadar Aviram -- Comparability of Survey Measurements / Daniel L. Oberski -- Employee Surveys as Catalysts for Change: Turning Data into Action / Patrick Hyland and Orly Dotan-Eliaz.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Surveys -- Methodology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Social surveys -- Methodology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc