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Leander Steinkopf, Gerrit Bauer and Henning Best, “Nonresponse in CATI Surveys - An Empirical Study on the Effects of Interviewers’ Vocal Characteristics” [in German], Methoden – Daten - Analysen, 2010, 4, 1, 3-26, available at http://www.gesis.org/fileadmin/upload/forschung/publikationen/zeitschriften/mda/Vol.4_Heft_1/01_Best.pdf.
Tilo Beckers, “Das Vergleichen von Vergleichen als Validierungsstrategie - Ein Vorschlag für die Sekundärdatenanalyse von Umfragedaten” (The comparison of comparisons as a validation strategy - A proposal for the secondary data analysis of survey data), Methoden und Instrumente der Sozialwissenschaften, 2010, 1, 19-33, available at http://www.gesis.org/fileadmin/upload/dienstleistung/fachinformationen/servicepublikationen/sofid/Fachbeitraege/Methoden_10-1-2_FB.pdf.
David G Steel and Robert G Clark, “Ask the Experts - Combining Survey Results”, Survey Statistician, July 2010: 9-14, available at http://isi.cbs.nl/iass/N62.pdf. Question: “What is the best way of combining the results from two surveys, which ask some common questions, possibly on overlapping samples, to improve the variance of the estimates for the common items?”
Anne Kenyon, Lynn Newman, Suzanne Triplett, Anne-Marie Knokey, Kathryn Valdes, Helen Smith, “Testing Prepaid Incentives and a Mail Questionnaire to Increase Response in a Multi-Wave Telephone Survey”, Survey Practice, 2010, 4, available at http://surveypractice.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/testing-incentives-and-mail-q-to-increase-response/.
Peter Lynn, “Making Good Use of Survey Paradata”, Survey Practice, 2010, 4, available at http://surveypractice.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/making-good-use-of-survey-paradata/.
