Assessment of survey data quality: a pragmatic approach focused on interviewer tasks
Geert Loosveldt
KU Leuven
Ann Carton
Administration of Planning and Statistics, Flemish Administration
Jaak Billiet
KU Leuven
Introduction
It makes sense to ask questions about the quality of data gathered for a particular research project. Answering these questions, however, is less obvious. After all, the quality of data can be assessed from very different angles (Platek & Srndal 2001). Statisticians, for instance, will tend tofocus on the sample design, the estimation procedures and...