The development and widespread use of Web surveys have resulted in an outpouring of
research on their design. In this volume, Tourangeau, Conrad, and Couper provide a …

Survey researchers since Cannell have worried that respondents may take various shortcuts
to reduce the effort needed to complete a survey. The evidence for such shortcuts is often …

Purpose This paper aims to examine the cognitive processes involved in answering survey
questions. It also briefly discusses how the cognitive viewpoint has been challenged by …

BACKGROUND African censuses and surveys remain dependent on interviewers for data
collection. Data quality is assured through training and supervision. Many survey concepts …

BACKGROUND Many of the dramatic changes in family formation and dissolution observed
in wealthy countries over the past 60 years are tracked through vital statistics or censuses …

Survey respondents may misinterpret the questions they are asked, potentially undermining
the accuracy of their answers. One way to reduce this risk is to make definitions of key …

International und national gehören Bevölkerungsumfragen inzwischen zu den
unumstrittenen Hilfsmitteln und wohl etablierten Instrumenten wirtschafts-, bildungs-, kultur …

This study tests the idea that features of the presentation of a survey to potential respondents
can affect nonresponse error, measurement error, and the relation between the two. A few …

When survey respondents' answers include pauses, stammers, and hedges, does this
indicate that they are in danger of misinterpreting the survey question? Or are disfluencies …

Whether future AI models make the world safer or less safe for humans rests in part on our
ability to efficiently collect accurate data from people about what they want the models to do …