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          • MacInness 2017 (Web links)
        • Marsh and Elliott (2008)
        • Sweet and Grace-Martin 2010
        • Babbie, Halley, Wagner and Zaino 2013
        • Julie Pallant, SPSS Survival Manual
        • Andy Field
        • Boslaugh 2005
        • McCormick & Salcedo (2015)
        • McCormick & Salcedo (2017)
      • SPSS textbooks worth a look >
        • Hy (1977)
      • On-line SPSS textbooks
      • Textbooks requested or awaiting review
    • Textbooks: Statistics for Social Research >
      • de Vries 2018
      • Bergin (2018)
    • Textbooks: Survey Methods >
      • Crouch & Housden (2003)
      • Andres (2012)
      • Blair, Czala and Blair (2014)
      • de Vaus (2014)
      • Hoinville, Jowell et al (1977)
      • Marsden & Wright [Eds] (2010) >
        • Contributors to Handbook of Survey Research
      • Marsh (1982)
      • Moser & Kalton (1971)
      • Oppenheim (1992)
      • Pallant 2016
    • Textbooks: Data curation and sharing >
      • Corti et el (2014)
  • 1: Survey Analysis Workshop (SPSS)
    • What is SPSS?
    • SPSS Without Tears >
      • My first time: in at the SPSS deep end (1972)
    • Introduction to Survey Analysis Workshop (SPSS) >
      • IBM® SPSS® Statistics (Overview)
      • Note on SPSS tutorials on this site
      • Background to current project >
        • Author's note
      • SPSS versions used
      • Stata and SPSS
    • Summary guide to SPSS tutorials >
      • Block 1: From questionnaire to SPSS saved file
      • Block 2: Analysing one variable >
        • 2.1: Nominal and ordinal variables
        • 2.2: Interval scale variables
        • 2.3: Data transformations
      • Block 3: Analysing two variables (and sometimes three) >
        • 3.1 Two variables (CROSSTABS)
        • 3.2 Three (or more) variables
        • 3.3 Multiple response (MULT RESPONSE)
        • 3.4 Conditional data transformations (IF and DO IF)
        • 3.5 Derived variables (COUNT and COMPUTE) >
          • 3.5.1 Introduction to COUNT and COMPUTE
          • 3.5.2 Teenage Attitudes (Tutorials)
      • Block 4: Hypothesis testing
      • SPSS files and documentation used for tutorials and exercises >
        • Data sets used in Survey Analysis Workshop >
          • British Social Attitudes
          • Pre-course questionnaire on interests and experience
          • Quality of Life in Britain
    • Useful links for SPSS >
      • On-line SPSS Intros and tutorials
      • SPSS courses
  • 1a: Statistical concepts and methods
  • 1b: Teaching with Survey Data
    • SN 28: Relative Deprivation and Social Justice 1962-63
  • 1c: Developing research projects using survey data
  • 1d: Workshop and presentations for ASSESS (SPSS users in Europe)
    • Old Dog, Old Tricks: Using SPSS syntax to beat the mouse-trap
    • The Beginners' Guide to Survey Analysis Using SPSS
    • Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: working with alien SPSS files
    • ASSESS 2014 Links to Contents
  • 2: Survey Research Practice
    • SR 502: Survey Research Practice (1976 - 1992)
    • Courses in Survey Methods >
      • (United Kingdom) Degrees, diplomas and certificates
      • (USA & Canada) Degrees, diplomas and certificates in survey research
      • Summer schools for survey methods
      • Short courses for survey research
    • Opinion polls >
      • Election poll débâcles
    • Web-based resources for survey research >
      • Survey Resources Network
      • On-line surveys
      • Question Banks
      • Survey methods guides and tutorials
      • Clips, tips and blogs
    • Useful links for Survey Research
  • 2a: Survey Research Methodology, Practice and Training
    • The place of survey research in the social sciences
    • Survey Research and Social Action
    • Academic centres specialising in survey research >
      • United Kingdom
      • USA and Canada
      • Europe
    • Professional and Voluntary Associations
    • Survey research organisations
    • Journals for survey research
    • Articles on survey research
  • 2b: Major survey series
    • United Kingdom (Major survey series: academic and other) >
      • British Social Attitudes >
        • British Social Attitudes: ​Exploring the SPSS files >
          • British Social Attitudes 1983 onwards: Cumulative SPSS file
          • British Social Attitudes: Making files from different years compatible
    • United Kingdom (Major survey series: government) >
      • ONS National Well-being >
        • ONS files
    • Europe (Major survey series)
    • USA (Major survey series)
  • 3: Subjective Social Indicators (Quality of Life)
    • Quality of Life: Measurement and methodology
    • Measures of psychological well-being
    • Values and Quality of Life
    • SSRC Survey Unit Quality of Life in Britain surveys 1971-1975 >
      • Abstracts, data and documentation
      • Publications based on the SSRC Quality of Life in Britain surveys >
        • Bibliography for Quality of Life in Britain and related surveys
        • Quality of Life of the Elderly in Residential Care
      • Surveys in schools >
        • "Trinians" survey
        • Playground to Politics
  • 4: Survey Unit, Social Science Research Council (UK)
    • Surveys by SSRC Survey Unit
    • Publications: SSRC Survey Unit
    • Courses, Conferences and Seminars
  • 5: Survey Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London
    • Survey Research Unit >
      • Training courses in survey methods
      • The place of SRU within PNL
    • Director's Working Group on the Survey Research Unit
  • Village life in Normandy
    • Notre Dame de Cenilly >
      • War and Peace in N D de Cenilly >
        • Armistice Day
        • German Occupation (1940 - 1944)
        • D-Day (6th June 1944) >
          • D-Day ceremony 9 June 2013
          • D-Day 70th Anniversary 2014
          • Lancaster bomber crew (Memorial Ceremony 8 June 2011)
          • Lancaster bomber crew (Memorial Ceremony 8 June 2014)
          • Lancaster bomber crew (Memorial Ceremony 7 June 2015)
          • Lancaster bomber crew ​(Memorial ceremony 5 June 2016)
        • Liberation July 1944 >
          • Field hospital in N D de Cenilly
          • Liberation celebrations (July 2006)
          • Visit of US 2nd Armored Division veterans (2 Sep 2009)
          • Liberation celebrations 2014
          • Unveiling of new monument (13 June 2015)
          • Re-enactment camp (Gavray, 11 July 2015)
      • Fête St Clair 2007
      • Fête St Clair 2010
      • Fête St Clair 2012 National pedal-car championships
      • La Noslière de Bas
    • Midsummer music
    • Paris trip (post Brexit)
  • Contact

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)



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  • Home page
  • Blog
  • Dedication
  • My personal pantheon (of the great and the good in survey research)
    • Mark Abrams >
      • Abrams publications
      • An interview with Mark Abrams (transcripts)
      • An interview with Mark Abrams (audio files)
      • Mark Abrams Prize
    • Angus Campbell >
      • SRU garden reception for Angus Campbell
    • Cathie Marsh
    • Tony Coxon
    • Roger Jowell
    • James A Davis
    • Norman Nie
  • Acknowledgements
    • Unsung heroes in support services
  • About the author
    • John F Hall: Career profile
    • John F Hall: Extra-curricular professional and political activities
  • About this site
    • What people have said about this site
    • Latest additions and modifications
    • How to use this site
  • Recent and planned activities
  • Textbooks
    • Textbooks for SPSS >
      • Highly recommended SPSS textbooks >
        • McInnes (2017) >
          • MacInnes, Chapter 4:​ Getting Started with SPSS
          • MacInnes, Chapter 5 Dealing with Data Documentation
          • MacInness 2017 (Web links)
        • Marsh and Elliott (2008)
        • Sweet and Grace-Martin 2010
        • Babbie, Halley, Wagner and Zaino 2013
        • Julie Pallant, SPSS Survival Manual
        • Andy Field
        • Boslaugh 2005
        • McCormick & Salcedo (2015)
        • McCormick & Salcedo (2017)
      • SPSS textbooks worth a look >
        • Hy (1977)
      • On-line SPSS textbooks
      • Textbooks requested or awaiting review
    • Textbooks: Statistics for Social Research >
      • de Vries 2018
      • Bergin (2018)
    • Textbooks: Survey Methods >
      • Crouch & Housden (2003)
      • Andres (2012)
      • Blair, Czala and Blair (2014)
      • de Vaus (2014)
      • Hoinville, Jowell et al (1977)
      • Marsden & Wright [Eds] (2010) >
        • Contributors to Handbook of Survey Research
      • Marsh (1982)
      • Moser & Kalton (1971)
      • Oppenheim (1992)
      • Pallant 2016
    • Textbooks: Data curation and sharing >
      • Corti et el (2014)
  • 1: Survey Analysis Workshop (SPSS)
    • What is SPSS?
    • SPSS Without Tears >
      • My first time: in at the SPSS deep end (1972)
    • Introduction to Survey Analysis Workshop (SPSS) >
      • IBM® SPSS® Statistics (Overview)
      • Note on SPSS tutorials on this site
      • Background to current project >
        • Author's note
      • SPSS versions used
      • Stata and SPSS
    • Summary guide to SPSS tutorials >
      • Block 1: From questionnaire to SPSS saved file
      • Block 2: Analysing one variable >
        • 2.1: Nominal and ordinal variables
        • 2.2: Interval scale variables
        • 2.3: Data transformations
      • Block 3: Analysing two variables (and sometimes three) >
        • 3.1 Two variables (CROSSTABS)
        • 3.2 Three (or more) variables
        • 3.3 Multiple response (MULT RESPONSE)
        • 3.4 Conditional data transformations (IF and DO IF)
        • 3.5 Derived variables (COUNT and COMPUTE) >
          • 3.5.1 Introduction to COUNT and COMPUTE
          • 3.5.2 Teenage Attitudes (Tutorials)
      • Block 4: Hypothesis testing
      • SPSS files and documentation used for tutorials and exercises >
        • Data sets used in Survey Analysis Workshop >
          • British Social Attitudes
          • Pre-course questionnaire on interests and experience
          • Quality of Life in Britain
    • Useful links for SPSS >
      • On-line SPSS Intros and tutorials
      • SPSS courses
  • 1a: Statistical concepts and methods
  • 1b: Teaching with Survey Data
    • SN 28: Relative Deprivation and Social Justice 1962-63
  • 1c: Developing research projects using survey data
  • 1d: Workshop and presentations for ASSESS (SPSS users in Europe)
    • Old Dog, Old Tricks: Using SPSS syntax to beat the mouse-trap
    • The Beginners' Guide to Survey Analysis Using SPSS
    • Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: working with alien SPSS files
    • ASSESS 2014 Links to Contents
  • 2: Survey Research Practice
    • SR 502: Survey Research Practice (1976 - 1992)
    • Courses in Survey Methods >
      • (United Kingdom) Degrees, diplomas and certificates
      • (USA & Canada) Degrees, diplomas and certificates in survey research
      • Summer schools for survey methods
      • Short courses for survey research
    • Opinion polls >
      • Election poll débâcles
    • Web-based resources for survey research >
      • Survey Resources Network
      • On-line surveys
      • Question Banks
      • Survey methods guides and tutorials
      • Clips, tips and blogs
    • Useful links for Survey Research
  • 2a: Survey Research Methodology, Practice and Training
    • The place of survey research in the social sciences
    • Survey Research and Social Action
    • Academic centres specialising in survey research >
      • United Kingdom
      • USA and Canada
      • Europe
    • Professional and Voluntary Associations
    • Survey research organisations
    • Journals for survey research
    • Articles on survey research
  • 2b: Major survey series
    • United Kingdom (Major survey series: academic and other) >
      • British Social Attitudes >
        • British Social Attitudes: ​Exploring the SPSS files >
          • British Social Attitudes 1983 onwards: Cumulative SPSS file
          • British Social Attitudes: Making files from different years compatible
    • United Kingdom (Major survey series: government) >
      • ONS National Well-being >
        • ONS files
    • Europe (Major survey series)
    • USA (Major survey series)
  • 3: Subjective Social Indicators (Quality of Life)
    • Quality of Life: Measurement and methodology
    • Measures of psychological well-being
    • Values and Quality of Life
    • SSRC Survey Unit Quality of Life in Britain surveys 1971-1975 >
      • Abstracts, data and documentation
      • Publications based on the SSRC Quality of Life in Britain surveys >
        • Bibliography for Quality of Life in Britain and related surveys
        • Quality of Life of the Elderly in Residential Care
      • Surveys in schools >
        • "Trinians" survey
        • Playground to Politics
  • 4: Survey Unit, Social Science Research Council (UK)
    • Surveys by SSRC Survey Unit
    • Publications: SSRC Survey Unit
    • Courses, Conferences and Seminars
  • 5: Survey Research Unit, Polytechnic of North London
    • Survey Research Unit >
      • Training courses in survey methods
      • The place of SRU within PNL
    • Director's Working Group on the Survey Research Unit
  • Village life in Normandy
    • Notre Dame de Cenilly >
      • War and Peace in N D de Cenilly >
        • Armistice Day
        • German Occupation (1940 - 1944)
        • D-Day (6th June 1944) >
          • D-Day ceremony 9 June 2013
          • D-Day 70th Anniversary 2014
          • Lancaster bomber crew (Memorial Ceremony 8 June 2011)
          • Lancaster bomber crew (Memorial Ceremony 8 June 2014)
          • Lancaster bomber crew (Memorial Ceremony 7 June 2015)
          • Lancaster bomber crew ​(Memorial ceremony 5 June 2016)
        • Liberation July 1944 >
          • Field hospital in N D de Cenilly
          • Liberation celebrations (July 2006)
          • Visit of US 2nd Armored Division veterans (2 Sep 2009)
          • Liberation celebrations 2014
          • Unveiling of new monument (13 June 2015)
          • Re-enactment camp (Gavray, 11 July 2015)
      • Fête St Clair 2007
      • Fête St Clair 2010
      • Fête St Clair 2012 National pedal-car championships
      • La Noslière de Bas
    • Midsummer music
    • Paris trip (post Brexit)
  • Contact