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1 online resource (xiv, 260 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Survey Automation convened by the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies on Apr. 15-16, 2002, held in Washington, D.C. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-252). |
| Contents |
Current practice in documentation and testing -- Shift from survey research to software engineering -- Changing survey management processes to suit software design -- Dealing with complexity: broadening the concept of documentation -- Reducing insularity -- Proceedings -- Opening remarks -- What makes the CAI testing and documentation problems so hard to solve? / Pat Doyle -- Software engineering -- the way to be / Jesse Poore -- Automation and federal statistical surveys / Bob Groves -- Understanding the documentation problem for complex Census Bureau computer assisted questionnaires / Thomas Piazza -- The TADEQ project: documentation of electronic questionnaires / Jelke Bethlehem -- Computer science approaches: visualization tools and software metrics / Thomas McCabe -- Model-based testing in survey automation / Harry Robinson -- Quality right from the start: the methodology of building testing into the product / Robert Smith -- Interactive survey development: an integrated view / Lawrence Markosian -- Practitioner needs and reactions to computer science approaches / Mark Pierzchala -- Web-based data collection / Roger Tourangeau -- Interface of survey methods with geographic information systems / Sarah Nusser -- Prospects for survey data collection using pen-based computers / Jay Levinsohn and Martin Meyer -- Panel discussion: how can computer science and survey methodology best interact in the future? |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
For over 100 years, the evolution of modern survey methodology-using the theory of representative sampling to make interferences from a part of the population to the whole-has been paralleled by a drive toward automation, harnessing technology. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Surveys -- Methodology -- Technological innovations -- Congresses.
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Surveys -- Methodology. |
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Technological innovations. |
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Surveys. |
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Questionnaires -- Technological innovations -- Congresses.
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Questionnaires. |
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Internet questionnaires -- Congresses.
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Internet questionnaires. |
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Statistics -- Data processing -- Congresses.
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Statistics -- Data processing. |
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Samfundsvidenskab Samfundsvidenskab, alment. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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National Research Council (U.S.). Oversight Committee for the Workshop on Survey Automation.
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National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Workshop on Survey Automation (2002 : Washington, D.C.). Survey automation. Washington, DC : National Academies Press, ©2003 0309089301 (DLC) 2003106250 (OCoLC)53919458 |
| ISBN |
0309510104 (electronic book) |
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9780309510103 (electronic book) |
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128208397X |
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9781282083974 |
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0309089301 (bk.) |
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9780309089302 (bk.) |
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