Survey Methodology and Missing Data [[electronic resource] ] : Tools and Techniques for Practitioners / / by Seppo Laaksonen

• Autore: Laaksonen Seppo
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2018.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (228 pages)
• Disciplina: 001.433
• Soggetto topico: Statistics ; Sociology—Research; Econometrics; Psychometrics; Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law; Research Methodology; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Concept of survey and key survey terms -- Designing a questionnaire and survey modes -- Sampling principles and missingness mechanisms -- Design effects at sampling phase -- Sampling design data file -- Missingness, its reasons and treatment -- Weighting adjustments due to unit missingness -- Special cases in weighting -- Statistical editing -- Introduction to statistical imputation -- Imputation methods for single variables -- Summary and key tasks of survey data cleaning -- Basic survey data analysis -- .
• Sommario/riassunto: This book focuses on quantitative survey methodology, data collection and cleaning methods. Providing starting tools for using and analyzing a file once a survey has been conducted, it addresses fields as diverse as advanced weighting, editing, and imputation, which are not well-covered in corresponding survey books. Moreover, it presents numerous empirical examples from the author's extensive research experience, particularly real data sets from multinational surveys.
• Titolo autorizzato: Survey Methodology and Missing Data
• ISBN: 9783319790114; 3319790110
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910300132403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II