Survey Data Collection and Integration

Luigi Fabbris

ISBN 10: 3642429149 / ISBN 13: 9783642429149

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Statistical surveys represent an important source of scientific knowledge and a valid decision support tool in many fields, from social studies to economics, market research, health studies, and others. Scientists have tackled most of the methodological issues concerning surveys and the scientific literature offers excellent proposals for planning and conducting surveys. Nevertheless, surveys often require the achievement of aims that either deviate from the methodology or do not have a specific solution at all.This book focuses on survey theory and applications, providing insight and innovative solutions to face problems in data collection and integration, complex sample design, opinion questionnaire design, and statistical estimation.Formal rigour and simple language, together with real-life examples, will make the book suitable to both practitioners involved in applied research and to academics interested in scientific developments in the survey field.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Survey Data Collection and Integration
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642429149
• ISBN 13: 9783642429149
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 10D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 10 millimeters depth
• Weight: 265 grams

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Synopsis

Statistical surveys represent an important source of scientific knowledge and a valid decision support tool in many fields, from social studies to economics, market research, health studies, and others. Scientists have tackled most of the methodological issues concerning surveys and the scientific literature offers excellent proposals for planning and conducting surveys. Nevertheless, surveys often require the achievement of aims that either deviate from the methodology or do not have a specific solution at all.

This book focuses on survey theory and applications, providing insight and innovative solutions to face problems in data collection and integration, complex sample design, opinion questionnaire design, and statistical estimation.

Formal rigour and simple language, together with real-life examples, will make the book suitable to both practitioners involved in applied research and to academics interested in scientific developments in the survey field.

About the Author

Cristina Davino is an associate professor of Statistics at the University of Macerata, Italy, and a member of the Doctoral Committee for the Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of Naples Federico II. Her research fields include: multidimensional data analysis, data mining (neural networks, association rules), quantile regression, statistical surveys, sensitivity analysis of composite indicators, evaluation of quality of life, and evaluation of educational planning.

Luigi Fabbris is a full professor in Social Statistics at the  Statistics Department, the University of Padua, Italy, where he lectures in Survey Methodology and Social Statistics. His research fields are multivariate analysis, survey sampling and questionnaire design; he was also active in social indicators, nexuses between education and work, social conditions of women, immigrants, the elderly and the homeless.