Survey methods in multicultural, multinational, and multiregional contexts

Written and painstakingly edited by leading experts in their respective fields, this volume offers a state-of-the-art overview of comparative multinational, multiregional, and multicultural issues, concerns, and responses in survey methodology. Like several other books in the Wiley Series in Survey Methodology, this work has been prepared in conjunction with an international conference on the topic (Berlin 2008) by the Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association and ZUMA Germany. The conference and book constitute part of an ongoing effort by a group of international researchers to promote quality in multipopulation surveys and to raise the level of methodological expertise in various applied fields of comparative survey research. The basic content, in light of emerging techniques and technologies, includes models of design, multilingual issues, instrument design, quality improvement, management knowledge and dissemination, validation, data collection in complex contexts, and data access in developing countries. The contributors are eminent, varied, and reflective of the international marketplace. Copious tables, figures, and references, as well as an extensive glossary, supplement the high quality discussion throughout the text.JANET A. HARKNESS, PhD, is Director and Graduate Chair of the Survey Researchand Methodology Program and Gallup Research Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is coauthor of Cross-Cultural Survey Methods, also published by Wiley. BRAD EDWARDS is Vice President and Associate Director at Westat, Inc. His areas of research interest include usability of data collection software, the use of incentive surveys, and quality of survey data collected from language minority populations. TIMOTHY P. JOHNSON, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Survey Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois Chicago. He has published extensively on a range of substantive and cross-cultural methodological issues. LARS LYBERG, PhD, is Chief Scientist at Statistics Sweden. He iscoeditor of Survey Masurement and Process Quality, Telephone Survey Methodology, and Measurement Errors in Surveys as well as coauthor of Introduction to Survey Quality, all published by Wiley. PETER PH. MOHLER, PhD, is Director of ZUMAand Professor at Mannheim University. He is coauthor of Cross-Cultural Survey Methods, also published by Wiley. BETH-ELLEN PENNELL, PhD, is Director of Survey Research Operations at the Instituite for Social Research at the University of Michigan. TOM W. SMITH is Director of the General Social Survey at National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-17799-0
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 576
• Fecha Publicación: 07/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés