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Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples
Survey sampling is fundamentally an applied field. The goal in this book is to put an array of tools at the fingertips of practitioners by explaining approaches long used by survey statisticians, illustrating how existing software can be used to solve survey problems, and developing some specialized software where needed. This book serves at least three audiences: (1) Students seeking a more in-depth understanding of applied sampling either through a second semester-long course or by way of a supplementary reference; (2) Survey statisticians searching for practical guidance on how to apply concepts learned in theoretical or applied sampling courses; and (3) Social scientists and other survey...
Data Analysis Using Stata
"This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Stata with an emphasis on data management, linear regression, logistic modeling, and using programs to automate repetitive tasks. Using data from a longitudinal study of private households in Germany, the book presents many examples from the social sciences to bring beginners up to speed on the use of Stata." -- BACK COVER.
Interviewer Effects from a Total Survey Error Perspective
Interviewer Effects from a Total Survey Error Perspective presents a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art research on interviewer-administered survey data collection. Interviewers play an essential role in the collection of the high-quality survey data used to learn about our society and improve the human condition. Although many surveys are conducted using self-administered modes, interviewer-administered modes continue to be optimal for surveys that require high levels of participation, include difficult-to-survey populations, and collect biophysical data. Survey interviewing is complex, multifaceted, and challenging. Interviewers are responsible for locating sampled units, contact...
Total Survey Error in Practice
Featuring a timely presentation of total survey error (TSE), this edited volume introduces valuable tools for understanding and improving survey data quality in the context of evolving large-scale data sets This book provides an overview of the TSE framework and current TSE research as related to survey design, data collection, estimation, and analysis. It recognizes that survey data affects many public policy and business decisions and thus focuses on the framework for understanding and improving survey data quality. The book also addresses issues with data quality in official statistics and in social, opinion, and market research as these fields continue to evolve, leading to larger and me...
The Palgrave Handbook of Survey Research
This handbook is a comprehensive reference guide for researchers, funding agencies and organizations engaged in survey research. Drawing on research from a world-class team of experts, this collection addresses the challenges facing survey-based data collection today as well as the potential opportunities presented by new approaches to survey research, including in the development of policy. It examines innovations in survey methodology and how survey scholars and practitioners should think about survey data in the context of the explosion of new digital sources of data. The Handbook is divided into four key sections: the challenges faced in conventional survey research; opportunities to expand data collection; methods of linking survey data with external sources; and, improving research transparency and data dissemination, with a focus on data curation, evaluating the usability of survey project websites, and the credibility of survey-based social science. Chapter 23 of this book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
The Economics of Financial Services in Emerging Markets
Any enquiry into the nature, performance, role, demerits, growth, efficiency, or other aspects of financial services such as banking and insurance activities, requires rigorous estimates of their economic output, i.e., the economic contributions made by these firms, as well as by the industries as a whole. Accordingly, this book condenses several theoretical, methodological, empirical, and philosophical issues in conceptualizing, measuring, and empirically operationalizing the economic output of the banking and insurance industries. The analytical focus is on both Global and Emerging Markets perspectives. The book synthesizes applied and conceptual evidence to locate the chosen theme's analy...
Techniques for Asking Sensitive Questions in Labour Market Surveys
Um Antwortverzerrungen bei der Erhebung von sozial unerwünschtem Verhalten in Arbeitsmarktsurveys zu reduzieren, können spezielle Befragungstechniken eingesetzt werden. Die Arbeit untersucht die Wirksamkeit dieser alternativen Fragetechniken - wie Randomized Response Technique (RRT) und Item Count Technique (ICT) - zur Erhebung des Ausmaßes von Schwarzarbeit und Arbeitslosengeld-II-Bezug in Deutschland. Außerdem wird eine neue Methode zur Erhebung von quantitativen heiklen Merkmalen entwickelt und angewendet: die Item Sum Technique (IST). Die Befunde zeigen, dass die häufig angenommene Wirkung der RRT oder der ICT auf die Bereitschaft der Befragten, sozial unerwünschtes Verhalten zu berichten, nicht eindeutig ausfällt. Die Ergebnisse der IST fallen hingegen positiver aus.
Survey Measurements
Wissenschaftliche Umfragen können keine aussagekräftigen Ergebnisse liefern, wenn ihre Datenqualität durch fehlende oder verfälschte Antworten beeinträchtigt wird. Eine Herausforderung der Sozialforschung besteht darin, solche Fehlerquellen zu erkennen und zu kontrollieren. Der Band präsentiert Erkenntnisse und Methoden zur Behandlung von Unit Nonresponse, Missing Data und verschiedene Arten von Messfehlern im Kontext von Web und Mixed-Mode Panel, Mobile Web und Faceto-Face-Befragungen.
Building on Progress
This publication provides a comprehensive compendium of the current state of Germany’s research infrastructure in the social, economic, and behavioural sciences. In addition, the book presents detailed discussions of the current needs of empirical researchers in these fields as well as of opportunities for future development. The importance of solid data for both public policy and the social and economic sciences is obvious. Today, empirical research is essential in finding solutions to many of the major challenges our society faces, such as environmental change, turbulent financial markets, and population growth. Based on 68 advisory reports by more than 100 internationally recognised authors from a wide range of fields, the book provides recommendations by the German Data Forum (RatSWD) on how to improve the research infrastructure so as to create conditions ideal for making Germany’s social, economic, and behavioural sciences more innovative and internationally competitive.
From Trustworthy AI Principles to Public Procurement Practices
This book is an early warning to public officials, policymakers, and procurement practitioners on the impact of AI on the public sector. Many governments have established national AI strategies and set ambitious goals to incorporate AI into the public infrastructure, while lacking AI-specific procurement guidelines. AI is not traditional software, and traditional processes are not sufficient to meet the challenges AI brings. Today’s decisions to embed AI and algorithmic systems into public system infrastructure can – and will – have serious repercussions in the future. The promise of AI systems is to make the public sector more efficient, effective, fair, and sustainable. However, AI s...
