POQ Special Issues
Total Survey Error – 2010 Special Issue
This special issue of POQ, edited by Paul P. Biemer and Lars Lyberg, focuses on total survey error.
The table of contents includes:
Paul P. Biemer
Total Survey Error: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation
Robert M. Groves and Lars Lyberg
Total Survey Error: Past, Present, and Future
Frauke Kreuter, Gerrit Müller, and Mark Trappmann
Nonresponse and Measurement Error in Employment Research: Making Use of Administrative Data
Joseph W. Sakshaug, Ting Yan, and Roger Tourangeau
Nonresponse Error, Measurement Error, And Mode Of Data Collection: Tradeoffs in a Multi-mode Survey of Sensitive and Non-sensitive Items
Scott Fricker and Roger Tourangeau
Examining the Relationship Between Nonresponse Propensity and Data Quality in Two National Household Surveys
Olena Kaminska, Allan L. McCutcheon, and Jaak Billiet
Satisficing Among Reluctant Respondents in a Cross-National Context
Wendy D. Hicks, Brad Edwards, Karen Tourangeau, Brett McBride, Lauren D. Harris-Kojetin, and Abigail J. Moss
Using Cari Tools To Understand Measurement Error
Brady T. West and Kristen Olson
How Much of Interviewer Variance is Really Nonresponse Error Variance?
Jorre Vannieuwenhuyze, Geert Loosveldt, and Geert Molenberghs
A Method for Evaluating Mode Effects in Mixed-mode Surveys
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Understanding the 2008 Presidential Election - 2009 Special Issue
The strength of polls is not just in their ability to produce accurate numbers and predictions; it is in their ability to help us understand why the winning candidate prevailed. Of course, our ability to answer the substantive questions about the election depends on having methodologically sound polling data.
This special issue of POQ, edited by D. Sunshine Hillygus, deals with various aspects of public opinion in the 2008 presidential election, helping to move the discussion beyond the clamor for an accuracy "gold star" and toward a better understanding of the dynamics of this historic contest and the quality of polling in the campaign.
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Web Survey Methods - 2008 Special Issue
This special issue of POQ, edited by Mick P. Couper and Peter V. Miller, explores some of the many ways that the Internet can be used--whether alone or in combination with other methods--to conduct surveys.
Have Web surveys lived up the hope and expectations of some, or the fears of others? Some claimed that Web surveys would replace other modes of data collection (especially telephone surveys); others saw Web surveys contributing to the disintegration or dilution--if not total demise--of the survey enterprise. Neither of these extremes has come to pass. Web surveys, like other methods of survey data collection, have strengths and weaknesses. Much of the research over the past several years has focused on identifying these strengths and weaknesses and finding ways to overcome the former and exploit the latter. The papers in this special issue continue the trend.
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Cell Phone Numbers and Telephone Surveying in the U.S. - 2007 Special Issue
This special issue of POQ, edited by Paul J. Lavrakas, looks into the growing number of Americans who only use cell phones and the effect of this trend on surveying. Articles included in this free-access issue address topics such as the possible future inaccuracy of surveys using only landlines, the effect of the rising percentage of cell-only households on surveys, and the decline in younger respondents in landline-only surveys.
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