Assessment of survey data quality: a pragmatic approach focused on interviewer tasks

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 total of all error components.
  

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...

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