Methods for testing and evaluating survey questionnaires / / edited by Stanley Presser, Jennifer M. Rothgeb, Mick P. Couper, Judith T. Lessler, Elizabeth Martin, Jean Martin, Eleanor Singer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910146058003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley-Interscience a John Wiley & Sons, Inc. publication, , [2004]; ©2004
• ISBN: 9780471654728; 0471654728; 9781280541988; 1280541989; 9780471654735; 0471654736; 9780471458418
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 606 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Wiley series in survey methodology
• Disciplina: 300/.72/3
• Soggetti: Social surveys - Methodology; Questionnaires - Methodology; Social sciences - Research - Methodology; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Methods for testing and evaluating survey questions / Stanley Presser, Mick P. Couper, Judith T. Lessler, Elizabeth Martin, Jean Martin, Jennifer M. Rothgeb, and Eleanor Singer -- 2. Cognitive interviewing revisited : a useful technique, in theory? / Gordon B. Willis -- 3. The dynamics of cognitive interviewing / Paul Beatty -- 4. Data quality in cognitive interviews : the case of verbal reports / Frederick G. Conrad and Johnny Blair -- 5. Do different cognitive interview techniques produce different results? / Theresa J. DeMaio and Ashley Landreth -- 6. Evaluating survey questions by analyzing patterns of behavior codes and question-answer sequences : a diagnostic approach / Johannes van der Zouwen and Johannes H. Smit -- 7. Response latency and (para); linguistic expressions as indicators of response error / Stasja Draisma and Wil Dijkstra -- 8. Vignettes and respondent debriefing for questionnaire design and evaluation / Elizabeth Martin -- 9. The case for more split-sample experiments in developing survey instruments / Floyd Jackson Fowler, Jr. --; 10. Using field experiments to improve instrument design : the SIPP methods panel project / Jeffrey Moore, Joanne Pascale, Pat Doyle, Anna Chan, and Julia Klein Griffiths -- 11. Experimental design considerations for testing and evaluating questionnaires / Roger Tourangeau -- 12. Modeling measurement error to identify flawed questions / Paul Biemer -- 13. Item response theory modeling for questionnaire evaluation / Bryce B. Reeve and Louise C. Mâsse -- 14. Development and improvement of questionnaires using predictions of reliability and validity / Willem E. Saris, William van der Veld, and Irmtraud Gallhofer -- 15. Testing paper self-administered questionnaires : cognitive interview and field test comparisons / Don A. Dillman and Cleo D. Redline -- 16. Methods for testing and evaluating computer-assisted questionnaire / John Tarnai and Danna L. Moore --; 17. Usability testing to evaluate computer-assisted instruments / Sue Ellen Hansen and Mick P. Couper -- 18. Development and testing of web questionnaires / Reginald P. Baker, Scott Crawford, and Janice Swinehart -- 19. Evolution and adaptation of questionnaire development, evaluation, and testing methods for establishment surveys / Diane K. Willimack, Lars Lyberg, Jean Martin, Lilli Japec, and Patricia Whitridge -- 20. Pretesting questionnaires for children and adolescents / Edith de Leeuw, Natacha Borgers, and Astrid Smits -- 21. Developing and evaluating cross-national survey instruments / Tom W. Smith -- 22. Survey questionnaire translation and assessment / Janet Harkness, Beth-Ellen Pennell, and Alisú Schoua-Glusberg -- 23. A multiple-method approach to improving the clarity of closely related concepts : distinguishing legal and physical custody of children / Nora Cate Schaeffer and Jennifer Dykema --; 24. Multiple methods for developing and evaluating a stated-choice questionnaire to value wetlands / Michael D. Kaplowitz, Frank Lupi, and John P. Hoehn -- 25. Does pretesting make a difference? An experimental test / Barbara Forsyth, Jennifer M. Rothgeb, and Gordon B. Willis.
• Sommario/riassunto: The definitive resource for survey questionnaire testing and evaluation Over the past two decades, methods for the development, evaluation, and testing of survey questionnaires have undergone radical change. Research has now begun to identify the strengths and weaknesses of various testing and evaluation methods, as well as to estimate the methods' reliability and validity. Expanding and adding to the research presented at the International Conference on Questionnaire Development, Evaluation and Testing Methods, this title presents the most up-to-date knowledge in this burgeoning field.The only book dedicated to the evaluation and testing of survey questionnaires, this practical reference work brings together the expertise of over fifty leading, international researchers from a broad range of fields. The volume is divided into seven sections: *Cognitive interviews *Mode of administration *Supplements to conventional pretests *Special populations *Experiments *Multi-method applications *Statistical modeling.Comprehensive and carefully edited, this groundbreaking text offers researchers a solid foundation in the latest developments in testing and evaluating survey questionnaires, as well as a thorough introduction to emerging techniques and technologies.

Political Preferences and the Aging of Populations : Political-Economy Explanations of Pension Reform / / by Oliver Pamp

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910484955403321
• Autore: Pamp Oliver
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Wiesbaden : , : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : , : Imprint : Springer VS, , 2015
• ISBN: 3-658-08615-7
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
• Disciplina: 300; 304.6; 339.5
• Soggetti: International economic relations; Demography; Population; International Political Economy’; Population and Demography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Research"--Cover.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Population Aging and its Economic and Financial Consequences -- Formal Models of Pension Systems -- Pension Preferences and Reform – A Political-Economy Model -- Econometric Analyses of Cross-National Survey Data on Individual Pension Reform Preferences.
• Sommario/riassunto: Oliver Pamp analyzes the likelihood and extent of pension reforms from a political-economy perspective. It is shown that voters’ preferences for or against reforms are influenced by a societies’ demographic development, the generosity of its existing public pension scheme and its electoral system. The author extensively reviews existing formal models of pension systems, discusses their merits and limitations, and develops a three-period overlapping generations model. The model’s insights regarding individual reform preferences are then put into the context of different electoral systems, thus emphasizing the important role of electoral institutions in the aggregation of societal preferences. Finally, using cross-national survey data, logit and ordered-logit analyses tentatively confirm some of the ; model’s main implications. Contents Population Aging and its Economic and Financial Consequences Formal Models of Pension Systems Pension Preferences and Reform – A Political-Economy Model Econometric Analyses of Cross-National Survey Data on Individual Pension Reform Preferences Target Groups Researchers, lecturers and students of political science and economics The Author Oliver Pamp is lecturer for empirical and formal methods at the Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science at the Ludwig MaximiliansUniversity in Munich (Germany). His research focuses, among other things, on the political economy of government budgets and social policy.