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PART ONE: METHODOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF SURVEYS The Debate aboutQuantitative and Qualitative Research - A Bryman A Question of Method orEpistemology? Functionalism and the Survey - J Platt The Relation ofTheory and Method Gender, Methodology, and People's Ways of Knowing - AOakley Some Problems with Feminism and the Paradigm Debate in SocialScience Instrumental Positivism in American Sociology - C G A Bryant Problemswith Survey - C Marsh Method or Epistemology? Sociological Analysis andthe "Variable" - H Blumer Adequacy at the Level of Meaning - C Marsh PARTTWO: ETHICAL CONTEXT The Belmont Report - National Commission for theProtection of Human Subjects in Research Ethical Principles for theProtection of Human Subjects in Research Sampling Strategies and the Threatto Privacy - S H Hartley Private Lives and Public Policies - Panel onConfidentiality and Data Access Confidentiality and Accessibility ofGovernment Services Statistical Disclosure Control in Practice - L C R JWillenborg and A G de Waal PART THREE: INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS A HistoricalPerspective on the Institutional Bases for Survey Research in the UnitedStates - S E Fienberg and J M Tanur Social Science Research and Policy-makingin Britain - M Bulmer Establishing a Dialogue - G C Wegner The ResearchRelationship: Practice and Politics in Social Policy Research Social Researchand Market Research - G Payne A Critique of a Policy Social Research andMarket Research - M Harrop A Critique of a Critique PART FOUR: RESEARCHDESIGNS Some Observations on Study Design - S A Stouffer Cross SectionalDesigns - D A De Vaus Household Panel Studies - D Rose An OverviewStudying Social Change with Survey Data Examples from Louis Harris Surveys -S Presser Issues of Design and Analysis of Surveys Across Time - G J Duncanand G Kalton Substantive Implications of Longitudinal Design Features - DCantor The National Crime Survey as a Case Study Survey MaterialsCollected in the Developing Countries - R E Mitchell Sampling Measurementand Interviewing Obstacles to Intra-national and International ComparisonsGenerating New Information - United States General Accounting Office WhyDon't Sociologists Make more Use of Official Statistics? - M Bulmer PARTFIVE: COLLECTING SURVEY DATA Research on Interviewing Techniques - C FCannell et al. Understanding the Standardized/Non-standardized InterviewingControversy - P Beatty Theories and Methods of Telephone Surveys - R M GrovesComputer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing - W L Nicholls A GeneralIntroduction Sampling for UK Telephone Surveys - M Collins The Design andAdministration of Mail Surveys - D A Dillman Towards a Theory ofSelf-administered Questionnaire Design - C R Jenkins and D A Dillman WebSurveys - M P Couper A Review of Issues and Approaches Polling ReviewBoard Statement about Internet Polls - National Council on Public Polls(NCPP) Measuring Response Rates in Online Surveys - B MacElroy Using E-Mailto Survey Internet Users in the United States - K B Sheehan and M G HoyMethodology and Assessment CASRO Internet Guidelines for Online Recruitment -CASRO Privacy Issues in Internet Surveys - H Cho and R LaRose Spam andResearch on the Internet - C Colby Mixed Mode Surveys - D A Dillman Report ofthe Committee on National Statistics - Subcommittee on Sharing Research DataSharing Research Data Secondary Analysis of Survey Data - K J Kiecolt and LE Nathan PART SIX: SAMPLING Sampling in the Twenty-First Century - S Sudmanand E Blair Some History and Reminiscences on Survey Sampling - M H HansenStatisticians Can Be Creative Too - J Rothman and D Mitchell Horses forCourses - H Taylor How Survey Firms in Different Countries Measure PublicOpinion with very Different Methods PART SEVEN: SURVEY ERROR On Errors inSurveys - W E Deming Research on Survey Data Quality - R M Groves PART EIGHT:MEASUREMENT ERROR Dirty Data in Britain and the USA - E M Schreiber TheReliability of "Invariant" Characteristics Reported in Surveys Convergent andDiscriminant Validation by the Multitrait-multimethod Matrix - D T Campbelland D W Fiske Income Reporting Error in Surveys - J C Moore et al.Cognitive Issues and Measurement Error Some Effects of "Social Desirability"- D L Phillips and K J Clancy Response Bias in Surveys of Mental Health - W RGove and M R Geerken An Empirical Investigation Acquiescence and RecencyResponse-order Effects in Interview Surveys - M J McClendon InterviewerEffects on the Quality of Survey Data - J J Feldman et al. Social Distanceand Interviewer Effects - B S Dohrenwend et al. Gender-of-Interviewer Effectsand Level of Public Support for Affirmative Action - D A Northrup The Impactof the Presence of Others on a Respondent's Answers to Questions - T W SmithThe Effect of Computer-Assisted Interviewing on Data Quality - E D de LeeuwA Review Effects of Interview Mode on Measuring Depression in Younger Adults- W S Aquilino The Relationship between Mode of Administration and Quality ofData in Survey Research - J van der Zouwen and E D de Leeuw The Effect of theQuestion on Survey Responses - G Kalton and H Schuman A Review TheReliability of Recall Data - S Dex A Literature Review How Comparative IsComparative Research? - R Jowell Problems of Functional Equivalence ofMeasurements in Multinational Surveys - D F Alwin et al. The Critique ofOfficial Statistics - I Miles and J Irvine Improving Coding Reliability forOpen-Ended Questions - A C Montgomery and K S Crittenden The In-Depth Testingof Survey Questions - W Foddy A Critical Appraisal of Methods ImprovingSurvey Quality Through Pretesting - T J DeMaio PART NINE: COVERAGE ERRORCoverage Errors Occurring Before Sample Selection - Subcommittee on SurveyCoverage Call Screening - M W Link and R W Oldendick Is it Really aProblem for Survey Research? Improving Random Respondent Selection inTelephone Surveys - D O'Rourke and J Blair Testing Nine Hypotheses aboutQuota Sampling - C Marsh and E Scarbrough New Developments in the Sampling ofSpecial Populations - S Sudman and G Kalton PART TEN: SAMPLING ERROR SampleSize - H W Austin How Much Is Enough? Probability Sampling with Quotas - SSudman PART ELEVEN: NON RESPONSE ERROR Survey Nonresponse, Measurement Error,and Data Quality - J van der Zouwen and E D de Leeuw An IntroductionSocio-demographic Determinants of Response - J Goyder The Hidden 25 Percent -T W Smith An Analysis of Nonresponse on the 1980 General Social SurveyEstimation of Nonresponse Bias - D F Hawkins International Response Trends -W de Heer Results of an International Survey Trends in Nonresponse Rates -T W Smith A Comparison of Nonresponse in Mail, Telephone, and Face-to-FaceSurveys - J J Hox and E D de Leeuw Applying Multilevel Modeling toMeta-Analysis Understanding the Decision to Participate in a Survey - RGroves et al. The Decline in Survey Response-A Social Values Interpretation -J Goyder and J M Leiper Leverage-saliency Theory of Survey Participation - RM Groves et al. Description and Illustration Respondent Burden - L M Sharpand J Frankel A Test of Some Common Assumptions The Effect ofQuestionnaire Length on Response Rates - K Bogen A Review of theLiterature Prenotification and Mail Survey Response Rates - B B Schlegelmilchand A Diamantopoulos A Quantitative Integration of the LiteratureEstimating the Effect of Incentives on Mail Survey Response Rates - A HChurch A Meta-Analysis Informed Consent and Survey Response - E SingerA Summary of the Empirical Literature Factors Affecting Response Rates toMailed Questionnaires - T A Heberlein and R Baumgartner A QuantitativeAnalysis of the Published Literature Interviewers' Tactics for FightingSurvey Nonresponse - G Snijkers et al. An Overview of Nonresponse Issues inTelephone Survey - R M Groves and L E Lyberg Strategies for ReducingNonresponse in a Longitudinal Panel Survey - H Laurie et al. Nonresponse inSociological Surveys - W W Daniel A Review of some Methods for Handlingthe Problem Interpreting the Effects of Missing Data in Survey Research - J DHutcheson and J E Prather Reducing Missing Data in Surveys - E D de LeeuwAn Overview of Methods Minimizing Error Variance Introduced by Missing DataRoutines in Survey Analysis - B Hertel Weighting to Adjust for SurveyNonresponse - C H Fuller When to Weight - L Mandell DeterminingNonresponse Bias in Survey Data A Comparison of Some Weighting AdjustmentMethods for Panel Nonresponse - L Rizzo et al.