Survey Methodology and Missing Data Tools and Techniques for Practitioners

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 correspon...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laaksonen, Seppo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2018, 2018
Edition:1st ed. 2018
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Concept of survey and key survey terms
  • Designing a questionnaire and survey modes
  • Sampling principles and missingness mechanisms
  • Design effects at sampling phase
  • Sampling design data file
  • Missingness, its reasons and treatment
  • Weighting adjustments due to unit missingness
  • Special cases in weighting
  • Statistical editing
  • Introduction to statistical imputation
  • Imputation methods for single variables
  • Summary and key tasks of survey data cleaning
  • Basic survey data analysis