AAPOR. See The American Association of Public Opinion Researchers
Accessible clusters, 26
ACS. See American Community Survey
Address-based sampling, 10, 30, 82
Al Baghal, Terek, 93
The American Association of Public Opinion Researchers (AAPOR), 17, 73
American Community Survey (ACS), 95–96
Anderson, Barbara, 57
Apples-to-apples contrasts, 76
Attitude–behavior question, 5
Audio recordings of telephone interview, 91
Automobiles, 10
Back-end time and cost, 76
Balanced allocation, 25
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), 74
Between-stratum analysis, 25
Bias, 37
Bickart, Barbara, 50
Biemer, Paul, 37
Big Data, 31
Box-Steffensmei, Janet, 52
Brace, Ian, 72
Bradburn, Norman, 8
BRFSS. See Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
Cannell, Charles, 54
CAPI. See Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing
CASI. See Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing
CATI. See Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing
Climate change, 51
Cognitive interviews, 96
conflict and cooperation, 7
Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI), 82
Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing (CASI), 82
Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI), 74, 75, 81
Computer-assisted telephone interviewing software, 91
Consistency, 5
Convenience sample, 17
Conversational interviewing, 84
approach, 86
Converse, Jean, 57
Cossm, Ronald, 90
Cost per response, 76
Costs, 44
Coupe, Mick, 51
types of, 94
Cover letter, 88
Cross-sectional surveys, 10
Currivan, Douglas, 61
Data analysis, 2
Database building, 73
sources and methods of, 6
ways of, 2
Data collection phase of survey, 76
Data quality, 95
Davis, Darren, 58
Dewey, Tom, 10
Dillman, Don, 9, 42–43, 82, 88
Direct marketing, 73
Dirk, Heerwegh, 62
Disproportional stratified random sampling, 24
Duff, Brian, 56
Dynamic probes, 93
Efficient surveys, 77
Egan, Patrick, 57
Electronic data collection, 31
Energy Supplier Survey (ESS), 94
Enumeration, 16
EPSEM. See Equal probability of selection methods
Equality, 56
Equal probability of selection methods (EPSEM), 18
definition of, 37
measurement error. See Measurement error
nonresponse error. See Nonresponse error
random, 37
systematic, 37
types of, 38
ESS. See Energy Supplier Survey
Ethical research, principles of, 73
Exit polls, 61
Face-to-face delivery, 81
Face-to-face interviewing, 83, 86
Face-to-face surveys, 56
Factorial allocation, 25
Fairness, 56
Finkel, Steven, 58
Fixed costs, 75
Focus groups, 96
Follow-ups, 49
Galesic, Marta, 55
General probes, 93
General Social Survey (GSS), 41, 50, 51
Global warming, 51
GSS. See General Social Survey
Gwartney, Patricia, 84
Hartford, Tim, 31
Ha, Trung, 62
Heaping, 55
Holmes, Thomas, 47
Huber, Gregory, 50
Incentives, 88
Indirect costs, 75
In-house survey, 75
Interactive probes, 93
Interactive Voice Response (IVR), 82
Internet access, 92
Interviewer-administered surveys, 87, 90
Interviewing, types of, 84
IVR. See Interactive Voice Response
Jackpot, 20
Job interviews, 8
Johnson, Timothy, 58
Kane, Emily, 58
LaPiere, Richard, 4
Lax, Jeffrey, 57
Leverage, 45
Leverage-salience theory, 45
List experiments, 60
Loosveldt, Geert, 62
Lynn, Peter, 93
Macaulay, Laura, 58
Mailed delivery, 81
Mailed surveys, characteristics, 88–89
Margin of error, 29
Marilyn Worthy and Danielle Mayclin, 94
Mayclin, Danielle, 94
McDonald, Michael, 61
McNabb, David, 41
Measurement, 2
recognizing and minimizing, 59–60
respondents’ characteristics, 54–57
Mobile technology, 72
Mode effect, 38
Monette, Duane, 1
Motivational statements, 93
Multistage sampling, 26
National Collegiate Athletic Associate (NCAA), 25
National Election Study’s (NES) question, 52
National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, 41
NCAA. See National Collegiate Athletic Associate
Nilson, Aria, 90
Nonprobability sample, 17
Nonrespondents, 89
Nonresponse error, 44
nonresponse and nonresponse bias, 46–47
theories of survey participation, 44–45
Nonscheduled interviewing, 84
Nonstandardized interview/interviewing, 84–86
Number of responding participants, 76
Observation, and questioning, 2–6
Occupational subcultures, 8
Overhead, 75
Paper surveys, 74
Paris, Celia, 50
Parson, Jennifer, 58
Participants, 71
Pew Research Center, 27
Phone, 10
Plewe, Thomas, 9
Political knowledge, 58
Pollner, Melvin, 58
error, 38
Preisendorfer, Peter, 61
Probability-based panels, 72
Probability sampling, 15–19, 30, 39
basic structure of, 17
confidence intervals and confidence levels, 29–32
methods, reliability and validity of, 30
selection of sample size, 27–28
Professional associations, 73
Proportional stratified random sampling, 24
Quantitative analyses, 63
Questions/questioning, 1, 8, 51
in everyday life, 1
Random-digit dialing approach, 41
Random error, 37
Random-frequency pulse source, 21
Randomized, 96
Random probe, 97
Random process, 21
Random sampling, 21
RECS. See Residential Energy Consumption Study
Refusals, 44
Religion, and sexual behavior, 8
Research. see also Survey
design, 2
group, 40
question, 68
strategy, 6
Residential Energy Consumption Study (RECS), 94
Riley, Matilda White, 2
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 10
Rule of reciprocity, 48
Rule of scarcity, 48
Rule of social validation, 48
Salience, 45
Sample size, 29
determination, 27
Sampling, 2
approach, problems of, 18
random numbers in, 20
Schmitz, James, 47
Schuldt, Jonathon, 51
Schuman, Howard, 4, 57, 96, 97
Scientific approach, characteristics of, 1
Sensitive questions, 89
Sexual behavior, religion and, 8
Significance level, 29
Silver, Brian, 58
Smith, Tom, 50
Snijkers, Ger, 74
Social desirability, 56–57, 59
Social exchange, 69
Social exchange theory, 44–45, 88
logical consequence of, 48
Socially desirable response, 93
Social media, 69
Social setting, aspects of, 2
Soulakova, Julia, 62
Split-ballot experiments, 96
group, 73
Standardized interview, 83, 84, 86
Strata, 24
types of, 24
Streb, Matthew, 56
Sudman, Seymour, 20
complexity, 76
complexity and number of responding participants, 75–77
dealing with diagnostic procedures, 22
face-to-face survey delivery, 83–87
meaning of survey questions and answers, 96–97
telephone survey delivery, 90–92
design and execution, 70
expensive process of conducting, 68
participants and administration of, 17
phases of, 76
procedural aspects of doing, 68
specific questions for, 70
technological change, 9
types of, 2
Survey error, 88
Survey panels, growth of, 72
Survey participation, 47
Survey refusal, 9
Survey reporting, technology on, 2
Survey research, 83
technology on, 2
types of, 72
Systematic error, 37
Systematic observation, 1
selection process, 22
Tailored design method, 88
Telephone delivery, 81
Thornburg, Matthew, 61
Total design method, 88
Total survey error, 37
Tourangeau, Roger, 9, 46–47, 57
Truman, Harry, 10
Two-stage sampling process, 26
Up-front time and cost, 76
Visual materials, 87
Voting, 52
Webb, Eugene, 6
Web delivery, 81
Web survey, characteristics of, 92–93
Weisberg, Herbert, 37
Whitmarsh, Lorraine, 51
Wolter, Felix, 61
Worthy, Marilyn, 94
Yang, Tinn, 57