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Handbook of Survey Research
Peter V Marsden & James D Wright [Eds]
(2nd edition, Emerald, 2010, £67.95)
ISBN: 978-1-84855-224-1 Hardback
Publisher’s book details (EmeraldInsight)
Preview pages (on Google books)
Interview with Editors (Question and answer, May 2011
Editors
Peter V. Marsden (Professor of Sociology, Dean of Social Science, Harvard University)
James D Wright (Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Sociology, University of
Central Florida)
Contents:
Dedication
List of Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgments
Contributors (in chapter order: profiles at at June 2011)
Part 1: Introduction and Overview.
1: Survey Research and Social Science: History, Current Practice and Future Prospects
James D Wright and Peter V. Marsden (For details see above).
2. Overview of Design Issues: Total Survey Error
Paul P. Biemer (Associate Director for survey research and Director of the certificate program in survey methodology Odum Institute for Research in Social Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Distinguished Fellow, RTI International)
3. Legal and Human Subjects Considerations in Surveys
Constance F. Citro (Director, Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC)
Part 2: Survey Sampling.
4. Sampling Theory
Martin Frankel (Professor of Statistics and Computer Information Systems, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York)
5. Fundamentals of Applied Sampling
Thomas Piazza (Senior Sampling Statistician, University of California, Berkeley)
[NB Survey Research Center closed in June 2010, but Tom is still at Berkeley].
6. Applied Sampling for Large-Scale Multistage Area Probability Designs
Rachel Harter, (Senior Fellow and Vice-president, NORC: moving shortly to RTI)
Stephanie Eckman (Senior Researcher, Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg)
Ned English (Senior Survey Methodologist, NORC)
.and Colm O'Muircheartaigh (Senior Fellow, Statistics and Methodology Department, Dean, Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago)
7. Sample Size, Optimum Allocation, and Power Analysis
Kenneth C. Land (John Franklin Crowell Professor of Demographic Studies and Sociology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina)
.and Hui Zheng. (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Ohio State University)
8. Analysis of Data from Complex Surveys
Richard T. Campbell (Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics and Sociology, University of Illinois, Chicago)
.and Michael L. Berbaum (Senior Biostatistician, Institute for Health Research and Public Policy, School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago)
Part 3: Survey Measurement.
9. Question and Questionnaire Design
Jon A. Krosnick (Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, Dept of Communication, Stanford University and co-Principal Investigator of the American National Election Studies.)
.and Stanley Presser (Professor, Dept of Sociology, University of Maryland, where he was Director of the Survey Research Center from 1989 to 2000.)
10. The Psychology of Survey Response
Roger Tourangeau (Director, Joint Program for Survey Methods, University of Maryland; Senior Research Scientist, University of Michigan)
.and Norman M. Bradburn (Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, NORC, Chicago)
11. Measurement Models for Survey Research
George W. Bohrnstedt (Senior Vice President for Research at the American Institutes for Research)
12. How Good is Survey Measurement? Assessing the Reliability and Validity of Survey Measures
Duane F. Alwin (McCourtney Professor of Sociology and Human Development, Director, Center on Population Health and Aging, Dept of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University)
Part 4: Survey Data Collection.
13. Interviewers and Interviewing
Nora Cate Schaeffer (Sewell Bascom Professor of Sociology, Faculty Director, University of Wisconsin Survey Center)
Jennifer Dykema (Survey Methodologist and an Associate Research Scientist, University of Wisconsin Survey Center)
.and Douglas W. Maynard (Conway-Bascom Professor of Sociology. University of Wisconsin-Madison)
14. Telephone Surveys
Paul J. Lavrakas (Consultant: previously Chief Methodologist at Nielsen Media Research and Professor of Journalism and Communication Studies, Northwestern University)
15. Mail Surveys and Paper Questionnaires
Chase H. Harrison (Principal Survey Methodologist , Harvard Business School)
16. Internet Surveys
Mick P. Couper (Research Professor, Survey Research Center, ISR, Michigan)
and Michael Bosnjak (Associate Professor, School of Economics and Management, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Italy)
17. Mixed Mode Surveys
Don A. Dillman (Regents Professor, Department of Sociology and Deputy Director, Research and Development , Social and Economic Sciences Research Center , Washington State University).
and Benjamin L. Messer (Graduate student, Social and Economic Sciences Research Center , Washington State University)
18. Managing Survey Research Projects
John M. Kennedy (Director, Center for Survey Research, Indiana University)
John Tarnai (Director, Social and Economic Sciences Research Center, Washington State University)
.and James G. Wolf (Consultant: previously Director, Survey Research Center and Clinical Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University).
Part 5: Preparing, Augmenting and Disseminating Survey Data.
19. Survey Non-response
John Dixon (No public profile: link is to Office of Survey Methods research, Bureau of Labor Statistics )
.and Clyde Tucker (No public profile found: various departments at Stanford plus Resources for the Future and Bureau of Labor Statistics)
20. Missing Data
Paul D. Allison (Professor of Sociology, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania)
21. Linking Administrative and Survey Data
Julia Lane (Program Director, Science of Science & Innovation Policy program, National Science Foundation)
22. Surveys and Geographic Information Systems
Frank M. Howell (Brief profile on Associated Faculty, Dept of Sociology, Emory University)
.and Jeremy R. Porter (Assistant Professor, Finance and Business Management, Brooklyn College, CUNY)
23. Archiving, Documentation, and Dissemination
Mary B. Vardigan (Assistant Director, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research; Director of Collection Delivery)
.and Peter Granda (Assistant Director, General Archive; Manager, International Archive of Education Data, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
Part 6: Special Types of Surveys.
24. Surveying Across Nations and Cultures
Tom W. Smith (Senior Fellow and Director, Center for the Study of Politics and Society, NORC)
25. Panel Surveys: Conducting Surveys Over Time
Frank P. Stafford (Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center; Research Professor, Survey Research Center;Professor, Economics Department, ISR, University of Michigan)
26. Analyzing Data from Repeated Surveys
Glenn Firebaugh (Roy C. Buck Professor of American Institutions and Professor of Sociology and Demography, Dept of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice, Pennsylvania State University)
27. Surveys in Applied Social Research
Timothy P. Johnson (Professor and Director of the Survey Research Laboratory, Dept of Public Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago)
.and James D Wright (See profile for Editors above)
28. Survey Experiments
Steven L. Nock (deceased) (Commonwealth Professor, Dept of Sociology, University of Virginia)
.and Thomas M. Guterbock (Professor of Sociology; Research Professor of Public Health Sciences; Director, Center for Survey Research, University of Virginia)
Index (Comprehensive and accurate for all terms)