Designing and conducting business surveys
Designing and Conducting Business Surveys provides a coherent overview of the business survey process, from start to finish. It uniquely integrates an understanding of how businesses operate, a total survey error approach to data quality that focuses specifically on business surveys, and sound proje...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
c2013.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
| Colección: | Wiley Series in Survey Methodology
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627959706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Designing and Conducting Business Surveys; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Abbreviations; 1. Surveys and Business Surveys; 1.1. The Objective of this Book; 1.2. The Statistical Production Process; 1.3. Surveys; 1.3.1. Definition of Surveys; 1.3.2. Survey Constraints, Considerations, and Tradeoffs; 1.3.2.1. Survey Errors and the Process Quality Approach; 1.3.2.2. Response Burden; 1.3.2.3. Trust; 1.3.3. A Brief Historical Look at Surveys; 1.4. Types of Business Data Outputs; 1.4.1. Official Statistics; 1.4.1.1. National Accounts; 1.4.1.2. Structural Business Statistics
- 1.4.1.3. Short-Term Statistics1.4.1.4. International and European Comparisons; 1.4.2. Other Types of Business Data Outputs; 1.5. Use of Business Data Outputs; 1.5.1. National, Regional, and Local Economic Performance; 1.5.2. Individual Business Monitoring and Policymaking; 1.5.3. Everyday Decisions; 1.6. Obtaining Business Data; 1.6.1. Business Data Collection Methods; 1.7. Business Surveys; 1.7.1. Types of Business Surveys; 1.7.2. The Business Survey-Output Production Process; 1.7.2.1. Business Survey Constraints, Considerations, and Tradeoffs; 1.7.2.2. Unique Features of Business Surveys
- 1.7.3. Perspectives of the Business Survey Process1.7.3.1. Survey Organization Perspective; 1.7.3.2. Respondent Perspective; 1.7.3.3. User Perspective; 1.8. Overview of the Book; 1.8.1. The Audience; 1.8.2. Organization of the Book; 1.8.3. Chapter Summaries; Acknowledgments; Appendix; 2. The Business Context and its Implications for the Survey Response Process; 2.1. The Business Context from the Perspective of the Organizational Sciences; 2.1.1. Business Goals and Behaviors and Implications for Survey Response
- 2.1.2. Dimensions of Social Behavior in Organizations Pertinent to the Survey Response Task2.1.3. The Response Process Viewed as Work; 2.1.3.1. How Work is Accomplished; 2.1.3.2. Social Behavioral Dimensions of Work; 2.1.3.3. Accomplishing the Work of Survey Response; 2.2. A Comprehensive Approach Integrating the Business Context and the Survey Response Process; 2.2.1. The Decision to Participate; 2.2.1.1. External Environment Factors; 2.2.1.2. Business/Management Factors; 2.2.2. Performing Response Tasks; 2.2.2.1. Organizational Context for Performing Response Tasks
- 2.2.2.2. Organizational Context and Social Behavior2.2.2.3. Organizational Context and the Cognitive Response Process; 2.2.3. Release of the Questionnaire; 2.2.4. Role of the Survey Organization in the Business Survey Response Process: Implications for Survey Design; 2.3. Summary; Acknowledgments; 3. Quality Issues in Business Surveys; 3.1. Survey Quality from a User/producer Perspective; 3.1.1. Users and User Evaluations of Business Surveys; 3.1.2. The Total Survey Error Approach; 3.1.2.1. Quality Constraints; 3.1.2.2. Survey-Related Effects; 3.2. Sample-Related Quality Issues
- 3.2.1. A Glimpse into Transaction Studies
