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points, the goal of which is to make optimum use of resources that are typically very limited, while ensuring that the final product -- the data -- is of high reliability and validity. Key Features: A comprehensive section on internet surveys, their methodology, summary of experiences and practices to date and how internet surveys interface with more traditional methods. Changes in telephone survey design and data collection procedures due to rising nonresponse rates (this will include combined methods of data collection and the use of respondent incentives) and call screening (and other) technologies. The increase use of web sites and package programs for variance estimation, data analysis and data dissemination.
Reducing Sources of Error in Data Collection
Reducing Sources of Error in Data Collection
This chapter considers how weaknesses in different aspects of data collection can affect the accuracy of our results. There are two main sections: concepts of error and methods to reduce error. The first section introduces the general idea of survey error, discusses the concepts of bias ...
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