Questions and Answers in Attitude Surveys: Experiments on Question Form, Wording, and Context - Hardcover

Schuman, Howard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0126313504 ISBN 13: 9780126313505

Publisher: Academic Pr, 1981

Synopsis

Comprehensive in its coverage, Questions and Answers in Attitude Surveys covers such issues as question order and response order effects; the lack of overlap between respondent-generated categories for open-ended questions and the closed categories generated by research, even with extensive pre-testing with open questions; the effects of explicitly offering respondents a "don't know" or a middle opinion alternative; attitude strength and its relation to reliability; and issues of wording tone.

About this title

About the Author:

Stanley Presser is interested in the interface between social psychology and survey measurement. His research focuses on questionnaire design and testing, the accuracy of survey responses, nonresponse, and ethical issues stemming from the use of human subjects. His books include Questions and Answers in Attitude Surveys (with Howard Schuman), Survey Questions (with Jean Converse), and Survey Research Methods (with Eleanor Singer). In addition to being professor of sociology, he teaches in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology, which he founded in 1992 with colleagues at the University of Michigan and Westat, Inc. He has served as editor of Public Opinion Quarterly, was president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, and is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association. Presser was director of the Maryland Survey Research Center from 1989 to 2000.

Review:

"The book is virtually a treasure chest for the survey methodologist and the survey practitioner." 

(Journal of Official Statistics)

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Pr
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0126313504
• ISBN 13: 9780126313505
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 370