Harvard University Program on Survey Research

Harvard Program on Survey Research Reference Library

The PSR Reference Library makes selected survey research references, texts, and guides available in the Harvard-MIT Data Center public computer labs.The lab is located in CGIS Knafel (North) building at 1737 Cambridge Street in Cambridge Massachusetts. The primary computer lab is located on the Concourse level in K024.Works may be borrowed for same day in-building use by any person with a valid HMDC lab account (Harvard ID required).

Alwin, D.F. 2007, Margins of Error: A Study of Reliability in Survey Measurement (Wiley Series in Survey Methodology), Wiley-Interscience.

Best, S.J. & Radcliff, B. 2005, Polling America : an encyclopedia of public opinion, Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn.

Biemer, P.P. & International Conference on Measurement Errors in Surveys (eds) 1991, Measurement errors in surveys, Wiley, New York.

Biemer, P.P. & Lyberg, L. 2003, Introduction to survey quality, Wiley, Hoboken, NJ.

Bradburn, N.M., Sudman, S. & Wansink, B. 2004, Asking questions : the definitive guide to questionnaire design : for market research, political polls, and social and health questionnaires, Rev. 1 edn, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco.

Carmines, E.G. & Zeller, R.A. 1979, Reliability and validity assessment; Validity assessment, Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, Calif.

Cochran, W.G. 1977, Sampling techniques, 3d edn, Wiley, New York.

Colton, D.L. & Covert, R.W. 2007, Designing and Constructing Instruments for Social Research and Evaluation (Research Methods for the Social Sciences), Jossey-Bass.

Converse, J.M. & Presser, S. 1986, Survey questions : handcrafting the standardized questionnaire, Sage Publications, Beverly Hills.

Couper, M. 1998, Computer assisted survey information collection, Wiley, New York.

Czaja, R. & Blair, J. 2005, Designing surveys : a guide to decisions and procedures, 2nd edn, Pine Forge Press, Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Dillman, D.A. 2007, Mail and internet surveys : the tailored design method, 2 ., 2007 update wi new internet, visual, a mix-mode guide edn, J. Wiley, Hoboken, N.J.

Donsbach, W. & Traugott, M.W. 2007, The SAGE Handbook of Public Opinion Research, Sage Publications Ltd.

Fields, D.L. 2002, Taking the measure of work : a guide to validated scales for organizational research and diagnosis, Sage, Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Fink, A. 2003, The survey kit, 2nd edn, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Firebaugh, G. 1997, Analyzing repeated surveys, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Fowler, F. J. 1995. Improving Survey Questions. Sage Publications, Beverly Hills

Fowler, F.J. 2002, Survey research methods, 3rd edn, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Fowler, F.J. & Mangione, T.W. 1990, Standardized survey interviewing ; minimizing interviewer-related error, Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA.

Fox, J.W. & Tracy, P.E. 1986, Randomized response: a method for sensitive surveys, Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, c1986.

Geer, J.G. 2004, Public opinion and polling around the world : a historical encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, Calif.

Groves, R.M. 2004, Survey methodology, J. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ.

Groves, R.M. (ed) 2002, Survey nonresponse, Wiley, New York.

Groves, R.M. 1989, Survey errors and survey costs, Wiley, New York.

Groves, R.M., American Association for Public Opinion Research, American Statistical Association & International Association of Survey Statisticians (eds) 2001, Telephone survey methodology, Pbk. edn, Wiley, New York.

Groves, R.M. & Couper, M. 1998, Nonresponse in household interview surveys, Wiley, New York.

Gwartney, P.A. 2007, The Telephone Interviewer's Handbook: How to Conduct Standardized Conversations (Research Methods for the Social Sciences), Jossey-Bass. (*)

Hansen, M.H. 1953, Sample survey methods and theory, Wiley, New York.

Harkness, J., de Vijver, F.J.R.v. & Mohler, P.P. 2003, Cross-cultural survey methods, J. Wiley-Interscience, Hoboken, N.J.

Hippler, H., Schwartz, N. & Sudman, S. 1987, Social information processing and survey methodology, Springer-Verlag, New York.

Kalton, G. 1983, Introduction to survey sampling, Sage Publications, Beverly Hills.

Kish, L. 1995, Survey sampling, Wiley classics library edn, Wiley, New York.

Lavrakas, P. 2008, Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods (2 Volume Set), Sage Publications, Inc.

Lavrakas, P.J. 1993, Telephone survey methods : sampling, selection, and supervision, 2nd edn, Sage Publications, Newbury Park, Ca.

Lee, E.S. & Forthofer, R.N. 2006, Analyzing complex survey data, 2nd edn, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Lehtonen, R. & Pahkinen, E. 2004, Practical methods for design and analysis of complex surveys, Chichester, West Sussex, England ; J. Wiley, c2004.

Lepkowski, J.M., Tucker, C., Leeuw, E.D.D., Japec, L., Lavrakas, P., Link, M. & Sangster, R.L. 2007, Advances in Telephone Survey Methodology (Wiley Series in Survey Methodology), Wiley-Interscience. (*)

Lessler, J. & Kalsbeek, W.D. 1992, Nonsampling error in surveys, New York : Wiley, c1992. (*)

Levy, P. & Lemeshow, S. 1999, Sampling of populations: methods and applications, New York ; Wiley, c1999.

Little, Roderick J. A. & Rubin, D.B. 2002, Statistical analysis with missing data, Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2002.

Lohr, Sampling: Design and Analysis, Duxbury Press.

Lyberg, L. (ed) 1997, Survey measurement and process quality, Wiley, New York.

Presser, S. (ed) 2004, Methods for testing and evaluating survey questionnaires, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

Robinson, J.P., Shaver, P.R. & Wrightsman, L.S. (eds) 1999, Measures of political attitudes, Academic Press, San Diego.

Robinson, J.P., Shaver, P.R., Wrightsman, L.S. & Andrews, F.M. 1991, Measures of personality and social psychological attitudes, Academic Press, San Diego.

Rubin, D.B. 2004, Multiple imputation for nonresponse in surveys, Wiley-Interscience, Hoboken, N.J.

Saris, W.E. & Gallhofer, I.N. 2007, Design, Evaluation, and Analysis of Questionnaires for Survey Research (Wiley Series in Survey Methodology), Wiley-Interscience.

Särndal, C. & Lundström, S. 2005, Estimation in surveys with nonresponse, Wiley, Hoboken, NJ .

Schuman, H. & Presser, S. 1996, Questions and answers in attitude surveys : experiments on question form, wording, and context, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA.

Sue, V.M. & Ritter, L.A. 2007, Conducting Online Surveys, Sage Publications, Inc.

Tourangeau, R., Rips, L.J. & Rasinski, K.A. 2000, The psychology of survey response, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K. ; New York.

Viswanathan, M. 2005, Measurement Error and Research Design, Sage Publications, Inc.

Weisberg, H.F., Krosnick, J.A., Bowen, B.D. & Weisberg,Herbert F.Introduction to survey research and data analysis 1996, An introduction to survey research, polling, and data analysis, 3rd edn, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Willis, G.B. 2005, Cognitive interviewing : a tool for improving questionnaire design, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, Calif.