Survey Methodology and Missing Data
Tools and Techniques for Practitioners
Authors: Laaksonen, Seppo
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- Presents survey data collection and cleaning methods
- Explains new advanced survey methodologies and tools
- Provides concrete empirical examples from real survey data sets
- Covers statistical editing, imputation, nonresponse and nonresponse adjustments
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This book focuses on quantitative survey methodology, data collection and cleaning methods. Providing starting tools for using and analyzing a file once a survey has been conducted, it addresses fields as diverse as advanced weighting, editing, and imputation, which are not well-covered in corresponding survey books. Moreover, it presents numerous empirical examples from the author's extensive research experience, particularly real data sets from multinational surveys.
- About the authors
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Seppo Laaksonen is a professor of statistics at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and has worked at various survey institutes including Statistics Finland, Eurostat and The Finnish Center for Social and Health Research. The former scientific secretary (2001-2003) and vice president of the International Association of Survey Statisticians (2007-2009), he has been a member of the sampling expert team of the European Social Survey since 2001. He has also been involved in a number of European research projects and is a consultant for surveys in Moldova, Ethiopia, Slovenia, the United Kingdom and Hungary.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-4
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Concept of Survey and Key Survey Terms
Pages 5-26
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Designing a Questionnaire and Survey Modes
Pages 27-47
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Sampling Principles, Missingness Mechanisms, and Design Weighting
Pages 49-76
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Design Effects at the Sampling Phase
Pages 77-89
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Survey Methodology and Missing Data
- Book Subtitle
- Tools and Techniques for Practitioners
- Authors
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- Seppo Laaksonen
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-79011-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-79011-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-79010-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-07704-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 224
- Number of Illustrations
- 10 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
- Topics
