Abstract
James Esposito and J.M. Rothgeb (1995)
"Evaluating Survey Data: Making The Transition From
Pretesting to Quality Assessment," monograph paper presented
at the International Conference of Survey Methods and
Process Quality, Bristol, England. [This paper is to
appear as a book chapter when the monograph is published in
1996.]
As an emerging discipline, the field of survey methodology
has been influenced greatly by the scientific and
technological advances of the past 25 years. For example, the
Cognitive Aspects of survey methodology (CASM) movement that
began in the mid-1980s was made possible by the cognitive
revolution in psychology that took place in the early 1970s.
The introduction of computer-assisted personal and telephone
interviewing (CAPI and CATI, respectively) was made possible
by the rapid evolution of personal computers in the early
1980s. Social, political, and economic movements have had an
impact as well. For example, Deming's views on quality have
changed fundamentally the way some corporations manufacture
products and compete in the world marketplace. All of the
advances mentioned above influence the way survey
methodologists deal with and resolve data quality issues, and
all affect professionals in the public sector who are
responsible for providing data users with high-quality social
and economic statistics.
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