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Survey Questions Handcrafting the Standardized Questionnaire

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ISBN-10: 0803927436

ISBN-13: 9780803927438

Edition: 1986

Authors: Jean M. Converse, Stanley Presser

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"An extremely useful handbook for students and any newcomers to survey research." --Network Recent research has yielded many new clues about how survey questions "behave," and some of these findings have offered practical guidance for question writing. Volume 63 reviews this experimental literature and provides both general guiding principles and specific advice on how to develop a survey questionnaire, emphasizing the practical implications of the experience and research of questionnaire designers. The authors also suggest a number of ways in which to make pilot and pretest work more fruitful. The material is easily accessible, yet professionally sophisticated. This volume should be…    
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Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/1/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 5.30" wide x 8.20" long x 0.20" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Stanley Presser is interested in the interface between social psychology and survey measurement. His research focuses on questionnaire design and testing, the accuracy of survey responses, nonresponse, and ethical issues stemming from the use of human subjects. His books include Questions and Answers in Attitude Surveys (with Howard Schuman), Survey Questions (with Jean Converse), and Survey Research Methods (with Eleanor Singer). In addition to being professor of sociology, he teaches in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology, which he founded in 1992 with colleagues at the University of Michigan and Westat, Inc. He has served as editor of Public Opinion Quarterly, was president of the…    

Strategies of Experience and Research
The Experimental Evidence
The Tools at Hand