Survey Data Collection and Integration

1. Surveys: Critical Points, Challenges and Need for Development
Luigi Biggeri

2. Measurement Scales for Scoring or Ranking Sets of Interrelated Items
Luigi Fabbris

3. Assessing Multi-Item Scales for Subjective Measurement
Cristina Davino, Rosaria Romano

4. Statistical Tools in the Joint Analysis of Closed and Open-Ended Questions
Simona Balbi, Nicole Triunfo

5. The Use of Self-Anchoring Scales in Social Research: The Cantril Scale for the Evaluation of Community Action Orientation
Immacolata Napoli, Caterina Arcidiacono

6. Small Area Estimation of Poverty Indicators
Monica Pratesi, Caterina Giusti, Stefano Marchetti

7. Non-Sampling Errors in Household Surveys: The Bank of Italy’s Experience
Giovanni D’Alessio, Giuseppe Ilardi

8. Enriching a Large-Scale Survey from a Representative Sample by Data Fusion: Models and Validation
Tomàs Aluja-Banet, Josep Daunis-i-Estadella, Yan Hong Chen

9. A Business Survey on Job Vacancies: Integration with Other Sources and Calibration
Diego Bellisai, Stefania Fivizzani, Marina Sorrentino

Keywords: Statistics, Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law, Methodology of the Social Sciences