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Handbook of Survey Methodology for the Social Sciences

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Editors:
  1. Lior Gideon

    1. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York, USA

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  • Comprehensive overview of survey methodology in the social sciences Covers survey design, to data collection, to result analysis Statistical principles and techniques targeted for Social Scientists

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Lior Gideon
    Pages 3-6

  3. Classification of Surveys

    • Ineke Stoop, Eric Harrison
    Pages 7-21

  4. Survey Research Ethics

    • Robert W. Oldendick
    Pages 23-35

  5. An Overlooked Approach in Survey Research: Total Survey Error

    • René Bautista
    Pages 37-49

  6. Common Survey Sampling Techniques

    • Mary Hibberts, R. Burke Johnson, Kenneth Hudson
    Pages 53-74

  7. Frames, Framing Effects, and Survey Responses

    • Loretta J. Stalans
    Pages 75-90

  8. The Art of Question Phrasing

    • Lior Gideon
    Pages 91-107

  9. Interviewing

    • Lior Gideon, Peter Moskos
    Pages 109-118

  10. Unit Non-Response Due to Refusal

    • Ineke Stoop
    Pages 121-147

  11. Non-Response and Measurement Error

    • Jaak Billiet, Hideko Matsuo
    Pages 149-178

  12. Why People Agree to Participate in Surveys

    • Gerald Albaum, Scott M. Smith
    Pages 179-193

  13. Respondents Cooperation: Demographic Profile of Survey Respondents and Its Implication

    • Patrick Glaser
    Pages 195-207

  14. Effects of Incentives in Surveys

    • Vera Toepoel
    Pages 209-223

  15. Designing the Face-to-Face Survey

    • W. Lawrence Neuman
    Pages 227-248

  16. Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys Using FTF

    • Ineke Stoop, Eric Harrison
    Pages 249-276

  17. Costs and Errors in Fixed and Mobile Phone Surveys

    • Vasja Vehovar, Ana Slavec, Nejc Berzelak
    Pages 277-295

  18. Mail Survey in Social Research

    • Alana Henninger, Hung-En Sung
    Pages 297-311

  19. E-Mail Surveys

    • Gustavo Mesch
    Pages 313-325

  20. Increasing Response Rate in Web-Based/Internet Surveys

    • Amber N. Manzo, Jennifer M. Burke
    Pages 327-343
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About this book

Surveys enjoy great ubiquity among data collection methods in social research: they are flexible in questioning techniques, in the amount of questions asked, in the topics covered, and in the various ways of interactions with respondents. Surveys are also the preferred method by many researchers in the social sciences due to their ability to provide quick profiles and results. Because they are so commonly used and fairly easy to administer, surveys are often thought to be easily thrown together. But designing an effective survey that yields reliable and valid results takes more than merely asking questions and waiting for the answers to arrive. Geared to the non-statistician, the Handbook of Survey Methodology in Social Sciences addresses issues throughout all phases of survey design and implementation. Chapters examine the major survey methods of data collection, providing expert guidelines for asking targeted questions, improving accuracy and quality of responses, while reducing sampling and non-sampling bias. Relying on the Total Survey Error theory, various issues of both sampling and non-sampling sources of error are explored and discussed. By covering all aspects of the topic, the Handbook is suited to readers taking their first steps in survey methodology, as well as to those already involved in survey design and execution, and to those currently in training. Featured in the Handbook: • The Total Survey Error: sampling and non-sampling errors. • Survey sampling techniques. • The art of question phrasing. • Techniques for increasing response rates • A question of ethics: what is allowed in survey research? • Survey design: face-to-face, phone, mail, e-mail, online, computer-assisted.? • Dealing with sensitive issues in surveys. • Demographics of respondents: implications for future survey research. • Dealing with nonresponse, and nonresponse bias The Handbook of Survey Methodology in Social Sciences offers how-to clarity for researchers in the social and behavioral sciences and related disciplines, including sociology, criminology, criminal justice, social psychology, education, public health, political science, management, and many other disciplines relying on survey methodology as one of their main data collection tools.

Editors and Affiliations

  • John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York, USA

    Lior Gideon

About the editor

Lior Gideon, Ph.D., is a Full time Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, New York. Is a devout methodologist, and have over 15 years of international experience in teaching methodology courses and training future cohorts of researchers in the field of criminology and criminal justice research.  He also specializes in corrections-based program evaluation and focuses his research on rehabilitation, reentry, and reintegration issues and in particular by examining offenders’ perceptions of their needs. To that extent, Dr. Gideon developed many survey based measurement to examine level of punitiveness, attitudes supportive of rehabilitation, and recently measures of social support.  His research interests also involve international and comparative corrections-related public opinion surveys and their affect on policy. To that extent, Dr. Gideon published several manuscripts on these topics, including two previously published books on offenders needs in the reintegration process: Substance Abusing Inmates: Experiences of Recovering Drug Addicts on Their Way Back Home (2010, Springer), and Rethinking Corrections: Rehabilitation, Reentry, and Reintegration (with Hung-En Sung, 2011, Sage). Aside from the above, Dr. Gideon has published a methodology book titled Theories of Research Methodology: readings in methods, which is now available in its second addition. His other works were recently published in The Prison Journal, the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, and the Asian Journal of Criminology. Dr. Gideon earned his PhD from the Faculty of Law, Institute of Criminology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Maryland’s Bureau of Governmental Research.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Handbook of Survey Methodology for the Social Sciences

  • Editors: Lior Gideon

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3876-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-3875-5Published: 21 June 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4516-0Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-3876-2Published: 21 June 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 520

  • Topics: Methodology of the Social Sciences

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