From the 1970s to the early 1990s, the SPES project investigating the foundations of the socio-political decision-making system in Germany (Sozialpolitisches Entscheidungs- und Indikatorensystem) and Sfb-3, the Collaborative Research Programme on the Microanalytical Foundations of Social Policy...

Survey data. Designing surveys acknowledging nonresponse / Robert M. Groves and Mick P. Couper. Methods for obtaining high response rates in telephone surveys / David Cantor and Patricia Cunningham. High response rates for low-income population in-person surveys / Charlene Weiss and Barbara A....

Users of socio-economic statistics typically want more and better information. Often, these needs can be met simply by more extensive data collections, subject to usual concerns over financial costs and survey respondent burdens. Users, particularly for public policy purposes, have also...