Subject Index
 

This paper describes a fully automated quality monitoring system that in essence aims to ‘take the researcher out of research’. By reengineering the traditional research process, it is possible to eli ...

Within the community of survey researchers there has been an increasing awareness that the total survey error approach has only partially realised its objective of setting up a model to estimate the t ...

Reliance on self-report survey data is pervasive across social science disciplines; therefore, understanding the accuracy, or inaccuracy, of such data is important. We identify forms of inaccuracy in ...

The primary purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the problems associated with response error in surveys and to suggest, by example, a variety of techniques for managing response error within ...

Surveys that use self-reports of time-based activities might suffer from a response tendency to round values. Evidence presented in this paper shows that temporal reports contain a rounding bias, whic ...

The selection of respondents within households has significant consequences for the conduct and output of household surveys. The authors suggest more flexible designs than those traditionally used, op ...

This article explores the significance of time to research by asking whether, for example, data collection is tied to specific, clear and relevant time frames. Similarly, does location (of specific ma ...

This brief article examines research validity assessment, emphasising the importance of sampling standards and measurement methodology. It further suggests that external validation, meta-analysis, rep ...

The paper seeks to establish whether there are methodologies that could improve the robustness of survey evidence as presented in court in cases, for example, of intellectual property disputes. Contra ...

This paper focuses on monitoring studies ie those which detect when results are not conforming to anticipated or desired values. The aspect of monitoring that is of particular concern in this paper i ...