Table of Contents:
  • Improving survey methods : general introduction / Uwe Engel [and others]
  • Survey modes and response effects : overview and introduction Uwe Engel
  • Survey mode and mode effects / Edith D. De Leeuw and Joop J. Hox
  • Response effects and cognitive involvement in answering survey questions / Uwe Engel and Britta Köster
  • Telephone surveys using mobile phones / Britta Busse and Marek Fuchs
  • Interviewers and survey error : overview and introduction / Patrick Sturgis
  • Can interviewer personality, attitudes and experience explain the design effect in face-to-face surveys? / Malgorzata Turner [and others]
  • Interviewers' falsifications in face-to-face surveys : impact, reasons, detection and prevention / Natalja Menold [and others]
  • Asking sensitive questions : overview and introduction / Ben Jann
  • A new randomizing device for the RRT using Benford's law : an application in an online survey / Andreas Diekmann and Marc Höglinger
  • Asking sensitive questions : a critical account of the randomized response technique and related methods / Ivar Krumpal [and others]
  • The factorial survey as a method for measuring sensitive issues / Katrin Auspurg [and others]
  • Conducting web surveys : overview and introduction / Lars Kaczmirek
  • Web surveys in official statistics / Jelke Bethlehem
  • E-social science perspective on survey process : towards an integrated web questionnaire development platform / Vasja Vehovar, Andraž Petrovčič and Ana Slavec
  • Evaluating cross-national item equivalence with probing questions in web surveys / Michael Braun [and others]
  • Conducting access panels : overview and introduction / Uwe Engel and Annette Scherpenzeel
  • Response behavior in an adaptive survey design for the setting-up stage of a probability-based access panel in Germany / Uwe Engel
  • Survey participation in a probability-based internet panel in the Netherlands / Annette Scherpenzeel
  • The access panel of German official statistics as a selection frame / Ulrich Rendtel and Boyko Amarov
  • Accuracy of estimates in access panel based surveys / Tobias Enderle and Ralf Münnich
  • Combining surveys with non-questionnaire data : overview and introduction / Rainer Schnell
  • Linking surveys and administrative data / Rainer Schnell
  • Enhancing surveys with objective measurement and observe ratings / Rainer Schnell
  • The use of paradata / Frauke Kreuter
  • Coping with nonresponse : overview and introduction / Peter Lynn
  • Targeted response inducement strategies on longitudinal surveys / Peter Lynn
  • Incentive Effects / Anja S. Göritz
  • Nonresponse in comparative studies : enhancing response rates and detecting and minimizing nonresponse bias / Ineke Stoop
  • Handling missing data : overview and introduction / Martin Spiess
  • A split questionnaire survey design for data with block structure correlation matrix / Sara Bahrami [and others]
  • Multiple imputation of multilevel count data / Kristian Kleinke and Jost Reinecke
  • Robust multiple imputation / Roel de Jong and Martin Spiess.