{"product_id":"designing-and-conducting-business-surveys-paperback","title":"Designing and Conducting Business Surveys - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGer Snijkers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGustav Haraldsen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJacqui Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDesigning and Conducting Business Surveys\u003c\/i\u003e provides a coherent overview of the business survey process, from start to finish. It uniquely integrates an understanding of how businesses operate, a total survey error approach to data quality that focuses specifically on business surveys, and sound project management principles. The book brings together what is currently known about planning, designing, and conducting business surveys, with producing and disseminating statistics or other research results from the collected data. This knowledge draws upon a variety of disciplines such as survey methodology, organizational sciences, sociology, psychology, and statistical methods. The contents of the book formulate a comprehensive guide to scholarly material previously dispersed among books, journal articles, and conference papers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book provides guidelines that will help the reader make educated trade-off decisions that minimize survey errors, costs, and response burden, while being attentive to survey data quality. Major topics include: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- Determining the survey content, considering user needs, the business context, and total survey quality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- Planning the survey as a project\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- Sampling frames, procedures, and methods\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- Questionnaire design and testing for self-administered paper, web, and mixed-mode surveys\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- Survey communication design to obtain responses and facilitate the business response process\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- Conducting and managing the survey using paradata and project management tools\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e- Data processing, including capture, editing, and imputation, and dissemination of statistical outputs\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDesigning and Conducting Business Surveys\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable resource for anyone involved in designing and\/or conducting business or organizational surveys at statistical institutes, central banks, survey organizations, etc.; producing statistics or other research results from business surveys at universities, research organizations, etc.; or using data produced from business surveys. The book also lays a foundation for new areas of research in business surveys.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive guide to the most current methodologies, techniques, and best practices for data collection designs and procedures in business surveys\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDesigning and Conducting Business Surveys\u003c\/i\u003e provides a coherent overview of the business survey process, from start to finish. It uniquely integrates an understanding of how businesses operate, a total survey error approach to data quality that focuses specifically on business surveys, and sound project management principles. The book brings together what is currently known about planning, designing, and conducting business surveys, with producing and disseminating statistics or other research results from the collected data. This knowledge draws upon a variety of disciplines such as survey methodology, organizational sciences, sociology, psychology, and statistical methods. The contents of the book formulate a comprehensive guide to scholarly material previously dispersed among books, journal articles, and conference papers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book provides guidelines that will help the reader make educated trade-off decisions that minimize survey errors, costs, and response burden, while being attentive to survey data quality. Major topics include: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eDetermining the survey content, considering user needs, the business context, and total survey quality\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePlanning the survey as a project\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSampling frames, procedures, and methods\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eQuestionnaire design and testing for self-administered paper, web, and mixed-mode surveys\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSurvey communication design to obtain responses and facilitate the business response process\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConducting and managing the survey using paradata and project management tools\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eData processing, including capture, editing, and imputation, and dissemination of statistical outputs\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDesigning and Conducting Business Surveys\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable resource for anyone involved in designing and\/or conducting business or organizational surveys at statistical institutes, central banks, survey organizations, etc.; producing statistics or other research results from business surveys at universities, research organizations, etc.; or using data produced from business surveys. The book also lays a foundation for new areas of research in business surveys.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGER SNIJKERS, PhD, \u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Researcher and Advisor in Business Survey Data Collection Methodology at Statistics Netherlands, after having held various research and project management positions. From 2006-2011, he held the position of Professor of Business Survey Methodology at Utrecht University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGUSTAV HARALDSEN, Mag. Art., \u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Methodological Advisor in the Department of Data Collection and Methods at Statistics Norway. He previously headed the Division for Interviewing Surveys and the Division of Data Collection Methods.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJACQUI JONES, BA\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(Hons), MSc, \u003c\/b\u003e is Deputy Director of the Business Indicators and Balance of Payments Division in the UK Office of National Statistics (ONS). Prior to this, she worked in the Methodology Directorate at ONS.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDIANE K. WILLIMACK, MS, MA, \u003c\/b\u003e is Chief of the Response Improvement Research Staff at the Economic Programs Directorate of the U.S. Census Bureau. She previously served as a mathematical statistician and survey methodologist at the National Agricultural Statistics Service (U.S. Department of Agriculture).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdditional contributors include \u003cb\u003ePaul Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (ONS), \u003cb\u003eDeirdre Giesen\u003c\/b\u003e (Statistics Netherlands), \u003cb\u003eLi Chun Zhang\u003c\/b\u003e (Statistics Norway), and \u003cb\u003eMike Hidiroglou\u003c\/b\u003e (Statistics Canada).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 640\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.28 x 9.27 x 6.11 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 05, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53273726943539,"sku":"9780470903049","price":152.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/EeMibdwCaR9780470903049.webp?v=1776891646","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/designing-and-conducting-business-surveys-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}