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| Martin Bulmer | University of Surrey |
| © 2004 | 1532 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd |
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| Hardcover | ISBN: | 9780761971481 | £600.00 | |
| VOLUME ONE | |
| Editor's Introduction | |
| Questionnaires - An Overview | |
| PART ONE: ORIENTATION | |
| PART ONE: GENERAL | |
| Asking and Answering | David Reisman and Mark Benney |
| Why Ask? | Jerry R Hobbs and Jane J Robinson |
| What's in a Question? | Jacob Shamir, Neta Ziskind and Shoshana Blum-Kulka |
| A Content Analysis of Survey Questions | |
| The Formulation of Questions | Robert L Kahn and Charles F Cannell |
| Interviews versus Questionnaires | Frank K Gibson and Brett W Hawkings |
| Comparisons of Interviews with Questionnaires for Measuring Mothers' Attitudes toward Sex and Aggression | Robert R Sears |
| Effects of Questionnaire Design on the Quality of Survey Data | Maria Elena Sanchez |
| Asking the Age Question | Robert A Peterson |
| A Research Note | |
| Checks to Ensure that Questions Work as Intended | William Foddy |
| SECTION TWO: OPEN AND CLOSED | |
| Who Left It Open? | Stanley L Payne |
| A Description of the Free-Answer Question and its Demerits | |
| The Controversy Over Detailed Interviews | Paul F Lazarsfeld |
| An Offer for Negotiation | |
| Strong Arguments and Weak Evidence | Jean M Converse |
| The Open/Closed Questioning Controversy of the 1940s | |
| The Open and Closed Question | Howard Schuman and Stanley Presser |
| Two Problems in the Use of the Open Question | Albert A Campbell |
| Polling, Open Interviewing and the Problem of Interpretation | Angus Campbell |
| SECTION THREE: OPINIONS AND ATTITUDES | |
| Attitudes versus Actions | Richard T LaPiere |
| Problems in the Use of the Survey Questions to Measure Public Opinion | Howard Schuman and Jacqueline Scott |
| The Meaning of Opinion | David Riesman and Nathan Glazer |
| No Opinion, Don't Know and Maybe No Answer | Leo Bogart |
| SECTION FOUR: MEASUREMENT | |
| The Measurement of Social Attitudes | L L Thurstone |
| Vague Quantifiers | Norman M Bradburn and Carrie Miles |
| Teaching Data Collection in Social Survey Research | George W Brown |
| How Comparative Is Comparative Research? | Roger Jowell |
| The In-Depth Testing of Survey Questions | William Foddy |
| A Critical Appraisal of Methods | |
| Bringing Partiality to Light | G[UM]un R Semin and Christianne J De Poot |
| Question Wording and Choice as Indicators Of Bias | |
| VOLUME TWO | |
| PART TWO: QUESTION CONSTRUCTION | |
| Experimental Evidence on Question Design | Jean M Converse and Stanley Presser |
| The Quintamensional Plan of Question Design | George Gallup |
| Experiments in the Wording of Questions | Hadley Cantril and S S Wilks |
| Does the Question Form Influence Public Opinion Poll Results? | Albert B Blankenship |
| Consumer and Opinion Research | Sydney Roslow, Wallace H Wulfech and Philip G Corby |
| Experimental Studies on the Form of the Question | |
| How Interviewer Effects Operate Through Question Form | Herbert Stember and Herbert Hyman |
| The Effect of Question Order on Responses | Norman M Bradburn and William M Mason |
| Effects of Question Order on Survey Responses | Sam G Mcfarland |
| Question Order and Fair Play | Frederick O Lorenz, John Saltiel and Danny R Hoyt |
| Evidence of Even-Handedness in Rural Surveys | |
| It Was Party Identification All Along | Anthony Heath and Roy Pierce |
| Question Order Effects on Reports of Party Identification in Britain | |
| Question-Order Effects on Presidential Popularity | Lee Sigelman |
| Measuring Levels of Party Identification | Ian McAllister and Martin P Wattenburg |
| Does Question Order Matter? | |
| Measuring the Third-Person Effect of News | Vincent Price and David Tewksbury |
| The Impact of Question Order, Contrast and Knowledge | |
| Impact of Question Order on Third-Person Effect | Michel Dupagne, Michael B Salwen and Bryant Paul |
| Question Order Effects on Subjective Measures of Quality of Life | Fern K Willits and John Saltiel |
| Part-Whole Question Order Effects | Fern K Willits and Bin Ke |
| Views of Rurality | |
| Question Wording and Reports of Survey Results | Jon A Krosnick |
| The Case of Louis Harris and Associates and Aetna Life and Casualty | |
| Question Wording and Public Support for Contra Aid, 1983-1986 | Brad Lockerbie and Stephen A Borrelli |
| Wanted | Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann |
| Rules for Wording Structured Questionnaires | |
| Symbols in Survey Questions | Joan Flynn Fee |
| Solving the Problems of Multiple Word Meanings | |
| The Measurement of a Middle Position in Attitude Surveys | Stanley Presser and Howard Schuman |
| The Effects of Offering a Middle Response Option with Opinion Questions | G Kalton, Julie Roberts and D Holt |
| Experiments with the Middle Response Alternative in Survey Questions | George F Bishop |
| Asking Comparative Questions | Michaela W[um]anke, Norbert Schwarz and Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann |
| The Impact of the Direction of Comparison | |
| The Acquiescence Quagmire | Howard Schuman and Stanley Presser |
| Measuring Attitudes | William Foddy |
| VOLUME THREE | |
| PART THREE: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES | |
| SECTION ONE: SENSITIVE QUESTIONS | |
| Asking the Embarrassing Question | Allen H Barton |
| The Use of Leading Questions in Non-Schedule Interviews | Stephen A Richardson |
| A Use for Leading Questions in Research Interviewing | Barbara Snell Dohrenwend and Stephen A Richardson |
| How to Ask Questions about Drinking and Sex | Ed Blair, Seymour Sudman, Norman M Bradburn and Carol Stocking |
| Response Effects in Measuring Consumer Behavior | |
| Reducing Refusal Rates in the Case of Threatening Questions | Hans-J Hippler and Gabriele Hippler |
| The `Door-in-the-Face' Technique | |
| Question Threat and Response Bias | Norman M Bradburn, Seymour Sudman, Ed Blair and Carol Stocking |
| A Classification of Biased Questions | Eugene Litwak |
| Asking Sensitive Questions on Surveys | Raymond M Lee |
| SECTION TWO: FICTITIOUS QUESTIONS | |
| May We Presume? | Stanley L Payne |
| A Lecture on Taking Too Much for Granted | |
| Opinions on Fictitious Issues | George F Bishop, Alfred J Tuchfarber and Robert W Oldendick |
| The Pressure to Answer Survey Questions | |
| SECTION THREE: VARIOUS DESIGN ISSUES | |
| Context Effects on Survey Responses to Questions about Abortion | Howard Schuman, Stanley Presser and Jacob Ludwig |
| The Effect of Response Categories on Questionnaire Answers | Todd H Rockwood, Roberta L Sangster and Don A Dillman |
| Context and Mode Effects | |
| Political Information Processing | George F Bishop, Robert W Oldendick and Alfred J Tuchfaber |
| Question Order and Context Effects | |
| Equivalence of Questionnaire Items with Varying Response Formats | David A Frisbie and Dale C Brandenburg |
| Effects of Filter Questions in Public Opinion Surveys | George F Bishop, Robert W Oldendick and Alfred J Tuchfaber |
| The Yes-No Question Answering System and Statement Verification | M Michael Akiyama, William F Brewer and Edward J Shoben |
| Effects of Presenting One Versus Two Sides of an Issue in Survey Questions | George F Bishop, Robert W Oldendick and Alfred J Tuchfaber |
| An Application of Rasch Analysis to Questionnaire Design | Elizabeth A Martin, Pamela C Campanelli and Robert E Fay |
| Using Vignettes to Study the Meaning of `Work' in the Current Population Survey | |
| Testimony Validity as a Function of Question Form, Atmosphere and Item Difficulty | Kent H Marquis, Jean Marshall and Stuart Oskamp |
| Attitudes and Non-Attitudes | Philip E Converse |
| Continuation of a Dialogue | |
| PART FOUR: VALIDITY | |
| Fixed-Choice Questionnaires | Aaron V Cicourel |
| Learning How To Ask | Charles L Briggs |
| Native Metacommunicative Competence and the Incompetence of Fieldworkers | |
| Validity of Responses to Survey Questions | Hugh J Parry and Helen M Crossley |
| Has Racism Declined in America? It Depends on Who Is Asking and What Is Asked | John B McConahay, Betty B Hardee and Valerie Batts |
| The Random Probe | Howard Schuman |
| A Technique for Evaluating the Validity of Closed Questions | |
| VOLUME FOUR | |
| PART ONE: SURVEYS IN THE WORLD | |
| Data Construction | Nicholas Bateson |
| Basic Concepts | |
| SECTION ONE: MEMORY AND RECALL | |
| The Limitations of Human Memory | Alan Baddeley |
| Implications for the Design of Retrospective Surveys | |
| Retrospective Data in Survey Research | Peter Meneer |
| The Retrospective Question | Raymond Fink |
| Leading Questions and the Eye Witness Report | Elizabeth F Loftus |
| Since the Eruption of Mount St Helens, Has Anyone Beaten You Up? Improving the Accuracy of Retrospective Reports with Landmark Events | Elizabeth F Loftus and Wesley Marburger |
| My Memory | William A Wagenaar |
| A Study of Autobiographical Memory Over Six Years | |
| SECTION TWO: STRIVING TO IMPROVE QUESTIONS AND QUESTIONNAIRES | |
| Predicting Test-Retest Reliability From Behavior Coding | Jennifer Hess, Eleanor Singer and John Bushery |
| Latent Class Analysis of Survey Questions That Include Don't Know Responses | Lawrence F Feick |
| Monitoring Maternity Services by Postal Questionnaire | Claudia J Martin |
| Congruity Between Mothers' Reports and their Obstetric Records | |
| New Quantitative Techniques for Pretesting Survey Questions | Charles Cannell, Floyd J Fowler, Graham Kalton, Lois Oksenberg and Katherine Bischoping |
| Pretesting in Questionnaire Design | Nina Reynolds, Adamantios Diamantopoulos and Bodo Schlegelmilch |
| A Review of the Literature and Suggestions for Further Research | |
| An Empirical Evaluation of In-Depth Probes Used To Pretest Survey Questions | William Foddy |
| Improving Coding Reliability for Open-Ended Questions | Andrew C Montgomery and Kathleen S Crittenden |
| SECTION THREE: GRAPPLING WITH QUESTION DESIGN IN THE REAL WORLD | |
| Diagnostics for Redesigning Survey Questionnaires | Elizabeth Martin and Anne E Polivka |
| Measuring Work in the Current Population Survey | |
| Measurement in Subjective Health Assessment | Crispin Jenkinson, Martin Bardsley and Kate Lawrence |
| Themes and Prospects | |
| Analysing Drug Abuse with British Crime Survey Data | Ziggy MacDonald and Stephen Pudney |
| Modelling and Questionnaire Design Issues | |
| SECTION FOUR: NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN A CHANGING WORLD | |
| Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing in Survey Research | Jean Martin and Tony Manners |
| Technological Innovations in Data Collection | Edith de Leeuw and William Nicholls II |
| Acceptance, Data Quality and Costs | |
| Web Survey Design and Administration | Mick P Couper, Michael W Traugott and Mark J Lamias |
| Navigating the Rapids of Change | Don A Dillman |
| Some Observations on Survey Methodology in the Early Twenty First Century |
