Improving survey questions : design and evaluation
by
 
Fowler, Floyd J.

Title
Improving survey questions : design and evaluation

Author
Fowler, Floyd J.

ISBN
9780803945838
 
9780803945821

Personal Author
Fowler, Floyd J.

Publication Information
Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c1995.

Physical Description
viii, 191 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Series
Applied social research methods series ; v. 38

Series Title
Applied social research methods series ; v. 38

Contents
1. Questions as Measures: An Overview -- 2. Designing Questions to Gather Factual Data -- 3. Questions to Measure Subjective States -- 4. Some General Rules for Designing Good Survey Instruments -- 5. Presurvey Evaluation of Questions -- 6. Assessing the Validity of Survey Questions -- 7. Question Design and Evaluation Issues in Perspective -- Appendix A: Commonly Used Measurement Dimensions -- Appendix B: Measures of Common Covariates -- Appendix C: About Open-Ended Questions -- Appendix D: Achieving Standardized Interviews.

Subject Term
Social surveys -- Methodology.
 
Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology.


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