Indirect Questioning in Sample Surveys

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Chaudhuri, Arijit (Συγγραφέας), Christofides, Tasos C. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Statistics.; Mathematics.; Social sciences.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Statistical Theory and Methods.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Indirect questioning is a crucial topic in surveys of human populations. When the issue is about a stigmatizing characteristic (for example about illegal drug use), standard survey methodologies are destined to fail because, as expected, people are not willing to reveal incriminating information or...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• A Plea for Indirect Questioning: Stigmatizing Issues of Social Relevance
• Specification of Qualitative and Quantitative Parameters Demanding Estimation
• Various Indirect Questioning Techniques
• Randomized Response Techniques to Capture Qualitative Features
• Quantitative Issues Bearing Stigma: Parameter Estimation
• Indirect Techniques as Alternatives to Randomized Response
• Protection of Privacy
• Index.