Standardized Survey Interviewing: Minimizing Interviewer-Related Error (Applied Social Research Methods)

Fowler, Floyd J.; Mangione, Thomas W.

ISBN 10: 0803930933 / ISBN 13: 9780803930933

Published by SAGE Publications, Inc, 1989

About this Item

The book is complete and readable, with all pages and cover intact. Dust jacket, shrink wrap, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may have light notes, highlighting, or minor water exposure, but nothing that affects readability. May be an ex-library copy and could include library markings or stickers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Standardized Survey Interviewing: Minimizing Interviewer-Related Error (Applied Social Research Methods)
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803930933
• ISBN 13: 9780803930933
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

About this title

Synopsis

A practical guide to producing standardized, and reliable, interviews, this volume represents a blending of social science theories of interviewing dynamics, the authors′ own extensive research on interview-related error and research evidence from other prominent methodologists.

About the Author

Floyd J. Fowler, Jr. is a graduate of Wesleyan University and received a PhD from the University of Michigan in 1966. A Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Boston since 1971, he was Director of the Center for 14 years. Dr. Fowler is the author or co-author of four textbooks on survey methods, including Survey Research Methods, Improving Survey Questions, Standardized Survey Interviewing (with Mangione), and Survey Methodology (with Groves, Couper, Lepkowski, et. al), as well as numerous research papers and monographs. His recent work has focused on studies of question design and evaluation techniques and applying survey methods to studies of medical care.