Measurement Errors in Surveys Book

	Introduction
1	Measurement error across disciplines	1
2	The current status of questionnaire design	29
3	Response alternatives : the impact of their choice and presentation order	41
4	Context effects in the general social survey	57
5	Mode effects of cognitively designed recall questions : a comparison of answers to telephone and mail surveys	73
6	Nonexperimental research on question wording effects : a contribution to solving the generalizability problem	95
7	Measurement errors in business surveys	113
8	Recall error : sources and bias reduction techniques	127
9	Measurement effects in self vs. proxy response to survey questions : an information-processing perspective	145
10	An alternative approach to obtaining personal history data	167
11	The item count technique as a method of indirect questioning : a review of its development and a case study application	185
12	Toward a response model in establishment surveys	211
13	Data collection methods and measurement error : an overview	237
14	Reducing interviewer-related error through interviewer training, supervision, and other means	259
15	The design and analysis of reinterview : an overview	279
16	Expenditure diary surveys and their associated errors	303
17	A review of errors of direct observation in crop yield surveys	327
18	Measurement error in continuing surveys of the grocery retail trade using electronic data collection methods	347
19	Conversation with a purpose - or conversation? : interaction in the standardized interview	367
20	Cognitive laboratory methods : a taxonomy	393
21	Studying respondent-interviewer interaction : the relationship between interviewing style, interviewer behavior, and response behavior	419
22	The effect of interviewer and respondent characteristics on the quality of survey data : a multilevel model	439
23	Interviewer, respondent, and regional office effects on response variance : a statistical decomposition	463
24	Approaches to the modeling of measurement errors	487
25	A mixed model for analyzing measurement errors for dichotomous variables	517
26	Models for memory effects in count data	531
27	Simple response variance : estimation and determinants	551
28	Evaluation of measurement instruments using a structural modeling approach	575
29	A path analysis of cross-national data taking measurement errors into account	599
30	Regression estimation in the presence of measurement error	617
31	Chi-squared tests with complex survey data subject to misclassification error	637
32	The effect of measurement error on event history analysis	665