Volume 1: HISTORY, ETHICS AND CRITICISMS
HISTORY OF SURVEY RESEARCH
History of the Use of Surveys in Sociological Research - C Marsh
Attitude Measurement in Psychology and Sociology - J M Converse
The Early Years
History of the Use of Modern Sampling Techniques - F Stephan
ETHICS
Presidential Address - S Presser
Informed Consent and Confidentiality in Survey Research
Conflicts between the Needs for Access to Statistical Information and Demands for Confidentiality - S E Fienberg
Confidentiality Assurances and Response - E Singer & E D R vonThurn et al
A Quantitative Review of the Experimental Literature
PRACTICE STANDARDS
Standards for Surveying Agencies - S C Dodd
Invisible Coding of Survey Questionnaires - J P Dickson & M Casey et al
The Cheater Problem in Polling - L P Crespi
Safety in Social Research - G Craig & A Corden et al
CRITICISMS OF SURVEY RESEARCH
What Is Wrong with 'Variable Sociology'? - H Esser
Interviews, Surveys, and the Problem of Ecological Validity - A V Cicourel
The Critics of Surveys - C Marsh
In Defense of Science - R C Lewontin
In Defense of Surveys - A Greeley
Volume 2: SURVEY INSTTUMENTS AND DATA SOURCES
QUESTIONNAIRES
Open and Closed Questions
The Controversy Over Detailed Interviews - - P F Lazarsfeld
An Offer for Negotiation
The Open and Closed Question - H Schuman and S Presser
The Random Probe - H Schuman
A Technique for Evaluating the Validity of Closed Questions
VINGNETTES
The Vignette Technique in Survey Research - J Finch
The Use of Vignettes in Survey Research - C S Alexander and H J Becker
Vignette analysis - P H Rossi
Uncovering the Normative Structure of Complex Judgments
LENGTH
Effects of Questionnaire Length on Response Quality - A R Herzog & G G Bachman
The Effect of Questionnaire Length on Survey Response - B Burchell & C Marsh
Effect of Administration Mode
The Impact of Administration Mode on Responses Effects in Survey Measurement - N Schwarz & F Strack, et al
Effects of Interview Mode on Sensitive Questions in a Fertility Survey - J B Jobe & W F Pratt et al
A Comparison of Nonresponse in Mail, Telephone, and Face-to-Face Surveys: Applying Multilevel Modeling to Meta-Analysis - J J Hox & E D de Leeuw
Mode Effects in Survey Research - E D de Leeuw
A Comparison of Mail, Telephone, and Face to Face Surveys
INTERVIEWS
Interviewer effects
Interviewer Effects on the Quality of Survey Data - J J Feldman & H H Hyman et al
Interviewer Variability - M Collins
A Review of the Problem
MULTI MODE METHODS
Administrative Issues in Mixed Mode Surveys - D A Dillman and J Tarnai
Introduction to Mixed Method and Mixed Model Studies in the Social and Behavioural Sciences - A Tashakkori & C Teddlie
OFFICIAL STATISTICS
Using Official Statistics - D Slater
A Consideration of the Validity and Reliability of Suicide Mortality Data - P W O'Carroll
The Struggle for Independent Statistics on Poverty - P Townsend
Volume 3: SURVEY APPLICATIONS
MEASURING CHANGE
Panel Surveys
Problems in the Estimation and Interpretation of the Reliability of Survey Data - D F Alwin
Major Issues of Tracing Survey Respondents - R D Burgess
An Evaluator's Guide to Detecting Attrition Problems - E M Foster & L Bickman
Strategies for Reducing Nonresponse in a Longitudinal Panel Survey - H Laurie & R Smith et al
TREND STUDIES
Monitoring Social Change via Survey Replication - R A Kulka
Prospects and Pitfalls from a Replication Survey of Social Roles and Mental Health
The Changing Association between Age and Happiness - D D Witt & G D Lowe et al
Emerging Trend or Methodological Artifact?
Social Trends in the United States - N D Glenn
Evidence from Sample Surveys
RETROSPECTVE STUDIES
Telescoping and Temporal Memory - N M Bradburn & J Huttenlocher et al
Recalling Attitudes - T W Smith
An Analysis of Retrospective Questions on the 1982 GSS
The Life History Calendar - D Freedman & A Thornton et al
A Technique for Collecting Retrospective Data
Improving the Reliability of Retrospective Survey Measures - H C Finney
Results of a Longitudinal Field Survey
Using surveys to detect causes and test causal models
The Causal Assumptions of Quasi-Experimental Practice - T D Cook & D T Campbell
Extraneous Variables - M Rosenberg
False Criteria of Causality in Delinquency Research - T Hirschi & H Selvin
SURVEYS IN CROSS NATIONAL RESEARCH
Cross-national Survey Research - S Verba
The Problem of Credibility
Developing Quality Standards for Cross National Survey Research - P Lynn
Five Approaches
Surveys as a Tool for Measuring Subjective Phenomena
Attitudes can be Measured - L L Thurstone
Attitudes vs. Actions - R T LaPiere
Fallible Indicators of the Subjective State of the Nation - F Turner & E Krauss
Attitudes and Behaviour - H Schuman & M Johnson
SURVEYS AND POLLS
Public Opinion and Public Opinion Polling - H Blumer
Polls and the Political Process-Past, Present, and Future - G Gallup
Back on the Bandwagon - C Marsh
The Effect of Opinion Polls on Public Opinion
Opinion Polls - C Marsh
Social Science or Political Manouvre
Volume 4: SURVEY QUALITY
SURVEY ERROR
Research on Survey Quality - D F Alwin
Reliability and Validity Assesment in Attitude Research - G W Bohrnstedt
VALIDITY
Validity of Responses to Survey Questions - H J Parry & H M Crossley
Issues of Data Construction
Factors Relevant to the Validity of Experiments in Social Settings - T Campbell
SOCIAL DESIRABILITY
Social Desirability and Survey Measurement - T J DeMaio
A Review
Methods of Coping with Social Desirability Bias - A Nederhof
A Review
PROXY REPORTS
Self/Proxy Response Status and Survey Response Quality - J C Moore
A Review of the Literature
RELIABILITY
The Reliability of Survey Attitude Measurement - D F & J A Krosnick
The Influence of Question and Respondent Attributes
Assessing Reliability - E G Carmines & R A Zeller
Attitude Measurement - A McKennell
Use of Coefficient Alpha with Cluster or Factor Analysis
Nonattitudes - T W Smith
A Review and Evaluation
CODING QUALITY
Coding Reliability and Validity of Interview Data - K S Crittenden & R J Hill
Some General Principles of Questionnaire Classification - P F Lazarsfeld & A H Barton
In Search of one Set of Categories - R Popping
Analyzing Coding Reliability - G R Funkhouser & E B Parker
Random Systematic Error Coefficient
PILOT TESTING
How to Pilot Test
Survey Pretesting - S Presser & J Blair
Do Different Methods Produce Different Results?
New Strategies for Pretesting Survey Questions - L Oksenberg & C Cannell, et al
COGNITIVE TESTING
Cognitive Sciences and Survey Methods - R Tourangeau
Pretesting Survey Instruments - D Collins
An Overview of Cognitive Methods
Application of Cognitive Science to Computer Assisted Interviewing - M P Couper
MISSING DATA
Missing-Data Adjustments in Large Surveys - R J A Little
Weighting Methods - G Kalton & I Flores-Cervantes
Missing Data - J L Schafer & J W Graham
Our View of the State of the Art
Weighting for Non-response - P Lynn
SAMPLING
Applied Sampling - S Sudman
Sample Design and Design Effects - G Shackman
Methods for Design Effects - L Kish
