Nonsampling Error in Social Surveys / Edition 1

by David E. McNabb

Overview

A welcome and much-needed addition to the literature on survey data quality in social research, Nonsampling Error in Social Surveys, by David E. Mc Nabb, examines the most common sources of nonsampling error: frame error; measurement error; response error, nonresponse error, and interviewer error. Offering the only comprehensive and non-technical treatment available, the book’s focus on controlling error shows readers how to eliminate the opportunity for error to occur, and features revealing examples of past and current efforts to control the incidence and effects of nonsampling error. Most importantly, it gives readers the tools they need to understand, identify, address, and prevent the most prevalent and difficult-to-control types of survey errors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452257426
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	08/05/2013
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Dr. David E. Mc Nabb is a Professor Emeritus and an adjunct professor at the Pacific Lutheran University School of Business. He has taught undergraduate and graduate business courses for the University of Maryland–University College in Europe, the American University in Bulgaria, the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia, and a regional business education program in Northern France. He has also taught for several years for the MPA program at Evergreen State College, the Oregon State University, the University of Washington–Tacoma, and Olympic College. He served as a member of a consulting team investigating nonsampling error remediation for the US Census Bureau. The first edition of his book Research Methods in Public Administration and Nonprofit Management: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches received the Grenzebach Prize for Outstanding Published Scholarship in Philanthropy.

Table of Contents

Preface
About the Author
Table of Contents
PART I: CONCEPTS AND ISSUES IN NONSAMPLING ERROR RESEARCH
1. Issues in Data Quality and Survey Ethics
2. Nonsampling Error in Sample Surveys
3. The Total Survey Error Paradigm
PART II: MAJOR SOURCES OF NONSAMPLING ERROR IN SURVEYS
4. Defining and Detecting Nonsampling Error in Sample Surveys
5. Frame Error
6. Measurement Error
7. Response Error
8. Nonresponse Error
9. Interviewer Error
PART III: ERROR CONTROL APPLICATIONS
10. Tools for Identifying Nonsampling Error in Survey Data
APPENDICES
Appendix A: Glossary
Appendix B: Standards and Guidelines for Statistical Surveys
Appendix C: Deming’s 14-Points for Quality
REFERENCES

Editorial Reviews

Provides the best non-technical introduction to the nonsampling errors I have ever read.

Dmitriy Poznyak

My doctoral students came from a variety of backgrounds. Most of them have little to zero survey research background. The book will serve to ignite class discussion and move it to the highest level.

Valentin Ekiaka Nzai