TY - BOOK AU - Saris,Willem E. TI - Design, evaluation, and analysis of questionnaires for survey research T2 - Wiley series in survey methodology SN - 9781118634486 AV - HN29 U1 - 300.72/3 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Hoboken PB - Wiley KW - Social surveys KW - Methodology KW - Questionnaires KW - Interviewing KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Essays KW - bisacsh KW - Reference KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface -- Introduction -- The three-step procedure to design requests for an answer -- Concepts-by-postulation and concepts-by-intuition -- From social science concepts-by-intuition to assertions -- The formulation of requests for an answer -- Choices involved in questionnaire design -- Specific survey research features of requests for an answer -- Response alternatives -- The structure of open-ended and closed survey items -- Survey items in batteries -- Mode of data collection and other choices -- The effects of survey characteristics on data quality -- Criteria for the quality of survey measures -- Estimation of reliability, validity and method effects -- Split ballot mtmm designs -- Mtmm experiments and the quality of survey questions -- Applications in social science research -- The sqp 2.0 program for prediction of quality and the -- Improvement of measurement -- The quality of measures for concepts-by-postulation -- Correction for measurement errors -- Coping with measurement error in cross-cultural research -- References -- Index UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118634646 ER -