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To establish an integrated framework that systematically evaluates sources of survey error alongside the financial and operational costs of survey administration.

December 1, 1990Journal of the American Statistical Association

Survey Errors and Survey Costs.

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To establish an integrated framework that systematically evaluates sources of survey error alongside the financial and operational costs of survey administration.
Synthesized error paradigms across survey statistics, psychological measurement, and econometrics to classify coverage, nonresponse, sampling, and measurement errors.
Evaluated stochastic, nonlinear cost models alongside experimental interviewer-variance designs, questionnaire structural effects, and modes of data collection.
Demonstrated that practical survey administration is constrained by discontinuous, nonlinear cost functions that complicate theoretical sample optimization.
Showed that interviewer traits, question order, and collection modes introduce systematic response variance that often surpasses sampling error in magnitude.

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Methodological analysis uncovers trade-offs between measurement precision and operational expenditures in survey administration, highlighting the necessity of joint cost-error optimization.

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Faulkenberry et al. (1990) studied this question.

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Methodological analysis uncovers trade-offs between measurement precision and operational expenditures in survey administration, highlighting the necessity of joint cost-error optimization.

Survey Errors and Survey Costs.

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