Haraldsen, Gustav
Designing and Conducting Business Surveys
This book provides guidelines that will help the reader make educated trade-off decisions that minimize survey errors, costs, and response burden, while being attentive to survey data quality. Major topics include:
• Determining the survey content, considering user needs, the business context, and total survey quality
• Planning the survey as a project
• Sampling frames, procedures, and methods
• Questionnaire design and testing for self-administered paper, web, and mixed-mode surveys
• Survey communication design to obtain responses and facilitate the business response process
• Conducting and managing the survey using paradata and project management tools
• Data processing, including capture, editing, and imputation, and dissemination of statistical outputs
Designing and Conducting Business Surveys is an indispensable resource for anyone involved in designing and/or conducting business or organizational surveys at statistical institutes, central banks, survey organizations, etc.; producing statistics or other research results from business surveys at universities, research organizations, etc.; or using data produced from business surveys. The book also lays a foundation for new areas of research in business surveys.
Keywords: statistics, data dissemination, data collection, business, survey, sampling, sampling frames, sampling methods, paradata, Business Statistics & Math, Statistics for Finance, Business & Economics, Business Statistics & Math, Statistics for Finance, Business & Economics
- Author(s)
- Haraldsen, Gustav
- Jones, Jacqui
- Snijkers, Ger
- Willimack, Diane
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2013
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Wiley Series in Survey Methodology
- Page amount
- 640 pages
- Category
- Economy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781118447918
- Printed ISBN
- 9780470903049