A rich and diverse literature exists on the effects that human interviewers can have on
different aspects of the survey data collection process. This research synthesis uses the …

Interviewer effects can have a substantial impact on survey data and may be particularly
operant in public health surveys, where respondents are likely to be queried about racial …

We know a lot about best practices with regard to questionnaire design but there is also a lot
we don't know and lots of future research that is needed. Many of the other contributors to …

In this 1992 book John Zaller develops a comprehensive theory to explain how people
acquire political information from elites and the mass media and convert it into political …

The Third Edition of this bestselling resource provides clear, step-by-step guidance for new
and experienced interviewers to help them develop, shape, and reflect on interviewing as a …

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Notable advances resulting from new research findings, measurement approaches,
widespread uses of the Internet, and increasingly sophisticated approaches to sampling and …

Survey-based research on Whites' racial attitudes in the USA has characterized their views
as eithertolerant'orambivalent'. We argue that surveys on racial attitudes have systematically …

This chapter is a study of addressee-and topic-influenced style shift in language, within the
framework of quantitative or" variationist" sociolinguistics. The first section is written from a …

Practical Social Investigation provides, within a single text, an introduction to a wide range of
both long-standing and newer social research methods. Its balanced and integrated …