Willem E. Saris & Irmtraud N. Gallhofer 
Design, Evaluation, and Analysis of Questionnaires for Survey Research [EPUB ebook] 

Part I The three-step procedure to design requests for ananswer 13
1. Concepts-by-postulation and concepts-by-intuition 15
2. From social science concepts-by-intuition to assertions29
3. The formulation of requests for an answer 63
Part II Choices involved in questionnaire design 71
4. Specific survey research features of requests for an answer83
5. Response alternatives 103
6. The structure of open-ended and closed survey items 121
7. Survey items in batteries 137
8. Mode of data collection and other choices 155
Part III The effects of survey characteristics on dataquality 151
9. Criteria for the quality of survey measures153
10. Estimation of reliability, validity and method effects199
11. Split ballot MTMM designs 219
12. MTMM experiments and the quality of survey questions 237
Part IV Applications in social science research 255
13. The SQP 2.0 program for prediction of quality and theimprovement of measurement 223
14. The quality of measures for concepts-by-postulation 279
15. Correction for measurement errors 305
16. Coping with measurement error in cross-culturalresearch 275
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WILLEM E. SARIS, PHD, is Emeritus
Professor in Methodology of the University of Amsterdam and the
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He is Laureate of the 2005
Descartes Prize for ‘Best Collaborative Research’ as
member of the Central Coordinating Team of the European Social
Survey (ESS) and Recipient of the World Association of Public
Opinion Research’s ‘Helen Dinerman Award’ in 2009
for his lifelong contribution to the methodology of Opinion
Research. Dr. Saris also received the ‘2013 Outstanding
Service Prize’ of the European Survey Research
Association.
IRMTRAUD N. GALLHOFER, PHD, is a linguist
and was senior researcher on projects of the ESS, Research and
Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology at the Universitat Pompeu
Fabra, Barcelona. She is Laureate of the 2005 Descartes Prize for
‘Best Collaborative Research’ as a member of the
Central Coordinating Team of the ESS.