02479cam a2200397 a 4500 0000031078 OCoLC 20230921135304.0 110615s2012 enkm b a001 0 eng d 2011932180 755978947 814318807 814349572 1849203326 9781849203326 : $66.00 1849203318 9781849203319 lccopycat HM538 .B57 2012 001.433 23 HM538 .B57 2012 Blasius, Jörg, 1957-. Assessing the quality of survey data / Jörg Blasius & Victor Thiessen. London Thousand Oaks, Calif : Sage Publications, 2012. xi, 174 p : ill ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [164]-172) and index. Conceptualizing data quality : respondent attributes, study architecture, and institutional practices -- Empirical findings on quality and comparability of survey data -- Statistical techniques for data screening -- Institutional quality control practices -- Substantive or methodology-induced factors? : a comparison of PCA, CatPCA, and MCA solutions -- Item difficulty and response quality -- Questionnaire architecture -- Cognitive competencies and response quality. "This book introduces the latest methods for assessing the quality and validity of survey data by providing new ways of interpreting variation and measuring error. By practically and accessibly demonstrating these techniques, especially those derived from Multiple Correspondence Analysis, the authors develop screening procedures to search for variation in observed responses that do not correspond with actual differences between respondents. Using well-known international data sets, the authors show how to detect all manner of non-substantive variation from response styles including acquiescence, respondents' failure to understand questions, inadequate field work standards, interview fatigue, and even the manufacture of (partly) faked interviews."--Publisher's website. Social surveys Methodology. Social sciences Statistical methods. Social sciences Research Methodology. Correspondence analysis (Statistics). Thiessen, Victor. 190821 N 20230822095114.0 7690 7690 0 0 0 0 cutlib cutlib 2023-09-21 0 HM 538 BLA BK0051596 2023-09-21 00:00:00 c.043767 2023-09-21 BK