05504nam 2200709Ia 450 991013903940332120200520144314.01-118-44791-31-118-44789-11-118-44792-1(CKB)2550000001106855(EBL)1272157(SSID)ssj0000917494(PQKBManifestationID)11486753(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000917494(PQKBWorkID)10892661(PQKB)11193138(Au-PeEL)EBL1272157(CaPaEBR)ebr10738076(CaONFJC)MIL507225(CaSebORM)9781118447918(MiAaPQ)EBC1272157(OCoLC)794922814(PPN)192779303(EXLCZ)99255000000110685520120523d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDesigning and conducting business surveys[electronic resource] /Ger Snijkers ... [et al.]1st editionHoboken, NJ John Wiley & Sons, Inc.c20131 online resource (642 p.)Wiley series in survey methodology ;568Description based upon print version of record.0-470-90304-X 1-299-75974-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Designing and Conducting Business Surveys; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Abbreviations; 1. Surveys and Business Surveys; 1.1. The Objective of this Book; 1.2. The Statistical Production Process; 1.3. Surveys; 1.3.1. Definition of Surveys; 1.3.2. Survey Constraints, Considerations, and Tradeoffs; 1.3.2.1. Survey Errors and the Process Quality Approach; 1.3.2.2. Response Burden; 1.3.2.3. Trust; 1.3.3. A Brief Historical Look at Surveys; 1.4. Types of Business Data Outputs; 1.4.1. Official Statistics; 1.4.1.1. National Accounts; 1.4.1.2. Structural Business Statistics1.4.1.3. Short-Term Statistics1.4.1.4. International and European Comparisons; 1.4.2. Other Types of Business Data Outputs; 1.5. Use of Business Data Outputs; 1.5.1. National, Regional, and Local Economic Performance; 1.5.2. Individual Business Monitoring and Policymaking; 1.5.3. Everyday Decisions; 1.6. Obtaining Business Data; 1.6.1. Business Data Collection Methods; 1.7. Business Surveys; 1.7.1. Types of Business Surveys; 1.7.2. The Business Survey-Output Production Process; 1.7.2.1. Business Survey Constraints, Considerations, and Tradeoffs; 1.7.2.2. Unique Features of Business Surveys1.7.3. Perspectives of the Business Survey Process1.7.3.1. Survey Organization Perspective; 1.7.3.2. Respondent Perspective; 1.7.3.3. User Perspective; 1.8. Overview of the Book; 1.8.1. The Audience; 1.8.2. Organization of the Book; 1.8.3. Chapter Summaries; Acknowledgments; Appendix; 2. The Business Context and its Implications for the Survey Response Process; 2.1. The Business Context from the Perspective of the Organizational Sciences; 2.1.1. Business Goals and Behaviors and Implications for Survey Response2.1.2. Dimensions of Social Behavior in Organizations Pertinent to the Survey Response Task2.1.3. The Response Process Viewed as Work; 2.1.3.1. How Work is Accomplished; 2.1.3.2. Social Behavioral Dimensions of Work; 2.1.3.3. Accomplishing the Work of Survey Response; 2.2. A Comprehensive Approach Integrating the Business Context and the Survey Response Process; 2.2.1. The Decision to Participate; 2.2.1.1. External Environment Factors; 2.2.1.2. Business/Management Factors; 2.2.2. Performing Response Tasks; 2.2.2.1. Organizational Context for Performing Response Tasks2.2.2.2. Organizational Context and Social Behavior2.2.2.3. Organizational Context and the Cognitive Response Process; 2.2.3. Release of the Questionnaire; 2.2.4. Role of the Survey Organization in the Business Survey Response Process: Implications for Survey Design; 2.3. Summary; Acknowledgments; 3. Quality Issues in Business Surveys; 3.1. Survey Quality from a User/producer Perspective; 3.1.1. Users and User Evaluations of Business Surveys; 3.1.2. The Total Survey Error Approach; 3.1.2.1. Quality Constraints; 3.1.2.2. Survey-Related Effects; 3.2. Sample-Related Quality Issues3.2.1. A Glimpse into Transaction StudiesDesigning and Conducting Business Surveys provides a coherent overview of the business survey process, from start to finish. It uniquely integrates an understanding of how businesses operate, a total survey error approach to data quality that focuses specifically on business surveys, and sound project management principles. The book brings together what is currently known about planning, designing, and conducting business surveys, with producing and disseminating statistics or other research results from the collected data. This knowledge draws upon a variety of disciplines such as survWiley Series in Survey MethodologyIndustrial surveysEconomicsStatistical methodsIndustrial surveys.EconomicsStatistical methods.338.0072/3MAT029000bisacshSnijkers Ger1963-940879MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910139039403321Designing and conducting business surveys2121657UNINA