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"This book will be an aid to survey statisticians and to research workers who must work with survey data."
–Short Book Reviews, International Statistical Institute

Measurement Errors in Surveys documents the current state of the field, reports new research findings, and promotes interdisciplinary exchanges in modeling, assessing, and reducing measurement errors in surveys. Providing a fundamental approach to measurement errors, the book features sections on the questionnaire, respondents and responses, interviewers and other means of data collection, the respondent-interviewer relationship, and the effects of measurement errors on estimation and data analysis.Content:
Chapter 1 Measurement Error Across Disciplines (pages 1–25): Robert M. Groves
Chapter 2 The Current Status of Questionnaire Research (pages 27–40): Norman M. Bradburn and Seymour Sudman
Chapter 3 Response Alternatives: The Impact of Their Choice and Presentation Order (pages 41–56): Norbert Schwarz and Hans?Jurgen Hippler
Chapter 4 Context Effects in the General Social Survey (pages 57–71): Tom W. Smith
Chapter 5 Mode Effects of Cognitively Designed Recall Questions: A Comparison of Answers to Telephone and Mail Surveys (pages 73–93): Don A. Dillman and John Tarnai
Chapter 6 Nonexperimental Research on Question Wording Effects: A Contribution to Solving the Generalizability Problem (pages 95–111): Nico Molenaar
Chapter 7 Measurement Errors in Business Surveys (pages 113–123): Solomon Dutka and Lester R. Frankel
Chapter 8 Recall Error: Sources and Bias Reduction Techniques (pages 125–144): Donna Eisenhower, Nancy A. Mathiowetz and David Morganstein
Chapter 9 Measurement Effects in Self vs. Proxy Response to Survey Questions: An Information?Processing Perspective (pages 145–166): Johnny Blair, Geeta Menon and Barbara Bickart
Chapter 10 An Alternative Approach to Obtaining Personal History Data (pages 167–183): Barbara Means, Gary E. Swan, Jared B. Jobe and James L. Esposito
Chapter 11 The Item Count Technique as a Method of Indirect Questioning: A Review of Its Development and a Case Study Application (pages 185–210): Judith Droitcour, Rachel A. Caspar, Michael L. Hubbard, Teresa L. Parsley, Wendy Visscher and Trena M. Ezzati
Chapter 12 Toward a Response Model in Establishment Surveys (pages 211–233): W. Sherman Edwards and David Cantor
Chapter 13 Data Collection Methods and Measurement Error: An Overview (pages 235–257): Lars Lyberg and Daniel Kasprzyk
Chapter 14 Reducing Interviewer?Related Error Through Interviewer Training, Supervision, and Other Means (pages 259–278): Floyd J. Fowler
Chapter 15 The Design and Analysis of Reinterview: An Overview (pages 279–301): Gosta Forsman and Irwin Schreiner
Chapter 16 Expenditure Diary Surveys and Their Associated Errors (pages 303–326): Adriana R. Silberstein and Stuart Scott
Chapter 17 A Review of Errors of Direct Observation in Crop Yield Surveys (pages 327–346): Ron Fecso
Chapter 18 Measurement Error in Continuing Surveys of the Grocery Retail Trade Using Electronic Data Collection Methods (pages 347–364): John E. Donmyer, Frank W. Piotrowski and Kirk M. Wolter
Chapter 19 Conversation with a Purpose—or Conversation? Interaction in the Standardized Interview (pages 365–391): Nora Cate Schaeffer
Chapter 20 Cognitive Laboratory Methods: A Taxonomy (pages 393–418): Barbara H. Forsyth and Judith T. Lessler
Chapter 21 Studying Respondent?Interviewer Interaction: The Relationship Between Interviewing Style, Interviewer Behavior, and Response Behavior (pages 419–437): Johannes van der Zouwen, Wil Dijkstra and Johannes H. Smit
Chapter 22 The Effect of Interviewer and Respondent Characteristics on the Quality of Survey Data: A Multilevel Model (pages 439–461): Joop J. Hox, Edith D. de Leeuw and Ita G. G. Kreft
Chapter 23 Interviewer, Respondent, and Regional Office Effects on Response Variance: A Statistical Decomposition (pages 463–483): Daniel H. Hill
Chapter 24 Approaches to the Modeling of Measurement Errors (pages 485–516): Paul Biemer and S. Lynne Stokes
Chapter 25 A Mixed Model for Analyzing Measurement Errors for Dichotomous Variables (pages 517–530): Jeroen Pannekoek
Chapter 26 Models for Memory Effects in Count Data (pages 531–549): Piet G. W. M. van Dosselaar
Chapter 27 Simple Response Variance: Estimation and Determinants (pages 551–574): Colm O'Muircheartaigh
Chapter 28 Evaluation of Measurement Instruments Using a Structural Modeling Approach (pages 575–597): Willem E. Saris and Frank M. Andrews
Chapter 29 Path Analysis of Cross?National Data Taking Measurement Errors into Account (pages 599–616): Ingrid M. E. Munck
Chapter 30 Regression Estimation in the Presence of Measurement Error (pages 617–635): Wayne A. Fuller
Chapter 31 Chi?Squared Tests with Complex Survey Data Subject to Misclassification Error (pages 637–663): J. N. K. Rao and D. Roland Thomas
Chapter 32 The Effect of Measurement Error on Event History Analysis (pages 665–685): D. Holt, J. W. McDonald and C. J. Skinner