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Survey Research Designs: Towards a Better Understanding of Their Costs and Benefits

Prepared under the Auspices of the Working Group on the Comparative Evaluation of Longitudinal Surveys Social Science Research Council

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  • © 1986

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Editors:
  1. Robert W. Pearson

    1. Social Science Research Council, New York, USA

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  2. Robert F. Boruch

    1. Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Statistics (LNS, volume 38)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N2-V
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  2. Introduction

    • Robert F. Boruch, Robert W. Pearson
    Pages 1-6

  3. Research Designs and Causal Inferences: On Lord’s Paradox

    • Paul W. Holland, Donald B. Rubin
    Pages 7-37

  4. Toward Conducting Benefit-Cost Analysis of Data Programs

    • Bruce D. Spencer
    Pages 38-59

  5. The Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Surveys: Controversies and Issues of Cost and Continuity

    • Stephen E. Fienberg, Judith M. Tanur
    Pages 60-93

  6. The Role of Panel Studies in a World of Scarce Research Resources

    • Greg J. Duncan, F. Thomas Juster, James N. Morgan
    Pages 94-129

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 131-131
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About this book

ROBERT F. BORUCH AND ROBERT W. PEARSON During the 13th Century. a vigorous argument among Middle Eastern rabbis concerned how one ought to make a fair assessment of an olive crop value for tithing purposes. Should one consolidate the crop. systematically mix the olives. and then conscientiously draw a small random sample? Or. might one simply grab a handful of olives from the nearest basket and make an estimate of the crop's worth. The issue. of course. is one that research designers and research users confront often -- balancing the need for information against the resources that must be put into actually collecting the data -- in deciding how much effort is warranted to produce fair evidence. For the rabbis. who argued for twenty-five years over the matter. the issue can be resolved with a special rule. In this as in other cases. if the demand for information is biblical in origin -- if God is its source. then one ought to be considerably conscientious; a more scientific and more expensive endeavor is warranted. We may at times subscribe to this kind of rule of thumb in determining what quality of information is warranted under what conditions. But other rules and approaches are possible. And as medieval Jewish. Arabic. and Christian philosophy suggests. the alternatives need to be thought out and tested. Our interest is a bit more contemporary but has some spiritual kinship with early scholars' interest in empirical evidence.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Social Science Research Council, New York, USA

    Robert W. Pearson

  • Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

    Robert F. Boruch

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Survey Research Designs: Towards a Better Understanding of Their Costs and Benefits

  • Book Subtitle: Prepared under the Auspices of the Working Group on the Comparative Evaluation of Longitudinal Surveys Social Science Research Council

  • Editors: Robert W. Pearson, Robert F. Boruch

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Statistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6336-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-96428-7Published: 18 November 1986

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-6336-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0930-0325

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-7186

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 132

  • Topics: Statistics, general

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