Overview
- Directed both to Academic applied researchers and practitioners
- Includes recent developments in survey theory and application
- Focuses on survey theory and applications
- Offers excellent proposals for planning and conducting surveys
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction to Statistical Surveys
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Front Matter
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Questionnaire Design
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Sampling Design and Error Estimation
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Back Matter
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About this book
Statistical surveys represent an important source of scientific knowledge and a valid decision support tool in many fields, from social studies to economics, market research, health studies, and others. Scientists have tackled most of the methodological issues concerning surveys and the scientific literature offers excellent proposals for planning and conducting surveys. Nevertheless, surveys often require the achievement of aims that either deviate from the methodology or do not have a specific solution at all.
This book focuses on survey theory and applications, providing insight and innovative solutions to face problems in data collection and integration, complex sample design, opinion questionnaire design, and statistical estimation.
Formal rigour and simple language, together with real-life examples, will make the book suitable to both practitioners involved in applied research and to academics interested in scientific developments in the survey field.
Reviews
From the book reviews:
“The book under review deals with problems that require practical solutions that either deviate from the traditional methodology or do not have a specific solution at all. The methodology described in this volume is very valuable as it provides additional statistical tools for generating data and extracting the necessary information. … The book Survey Data Collection and Integration is a valuable addition to the expanding repertoire of statistical methodology.” (C. R. Rao, Technometrics, Vol. 56 (1), January, 2014)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Cristina Davino is an associate professor of Statistics at the University of Macerata, Italy, and a member of the Doctoral Committee for the Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of Naples Federico II. Her research fields include: multidimensional data analysis, data mining (neural networks, association rules), quantile regression, statistical surveys, sensitivity analysis of composite indicators, evaluation of quality of life, and evaluation of educational planning.
Luigi Fabbris is a full professor in Social Statistics at the Statistics Department, the University of Padua, Italy, where he lectures in Survey Methodology and Social Statistics. His research fields are multivariate analysis, survey sampling and questionnaire design; he was also active in social indicators, nexuses between education and work, social conditions of women, immigrants, the elderly and the homeless.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Survey Data Collection and Integration
Editors: Cristina Davino, Luigi Fabbris
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21308-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-21307-6Published: 23 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42914-9Published: 09 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-21308-3Published: 22 October 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 156
Topics: Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Methodology of the Social Sciences