Blasius, Jörg, 1957-

Assessing the quality of survey data / Jörg Blasius & Victor Thiessen. - London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications Ltd, 2012. - xi, 174 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [164]-172) and index.

Conceptualizing data quality : respondent attributes, study architecture, and institutional practices -- Empirical findings on quality and comparability of survey data -- Statistical techniques for data screening -- Institutional quality control practices -- Substantive or methodology-induced factors? : a comparison of PCA, CatPCA, and MCA solutions -- Item difficulty and response quality -- Questionnaire architecture -- Cognitive competencies and response quality.

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Social surveys--Methodology.
Social sciences--Statistical methods.
Social sciences--Research--Methodology.
Correspondence analysis (Statistics)

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