Measurement Errors in Surveys

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"This book will be an aid to survey statisticians and to
research workers who must work with survey data."

-Short Book Reviews, International Statistical Institute

Measurement Errors in Surveys documents the current state of the
field, reports new research findings, and promotes
interdisciplinary exchanges in modeling, assessing, and reducing
measurement errors in surveys. Providing a fundamental approach to
measurement errors, the book features sections on the
questionnaire, respondents and responses, interviewers and other
means of data collection, the respondent-interviewer relationship,
and the effects of measurement errors on estimation and data
analysis.