TY - BOOK AU - Blasius,Jörg AU - Thiessen,Victor TI - Assessing the quality of survey data SN - 1849203326 AV - HM538 .B57 2012 U1 - 001.433 23 PY - 2012/// CY - London, Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - Sage Publications Ltd KW - Social surveys KW - Methodology KW - Social sciences KW - Statistical methods KW - Research KW - Correspondence analysis (Statistics) N1 - 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 ER -