It might be expceted that a more active conversation betwecil cnumerator and respondent would provide better data in an interview. Such an effect had been report!:d for health interviewing. However, it was not discovered in farm intervicwing in the survey analyzed in this paper. There is...

This paper reviews the data sources used in the research on the cross-section of international stock returns. Covering the wide range of internationally focused papers I give an overview of the applied data, sample coverage, classification schemes and data cleaning methods. I address the quality...

This study presents a unique approach in investigating the knowledge diffusion structure for the field of data quality through an analysis of the main paths. We study a dataset of 1880 papers to explore the knowledge diffusion path, using citation data to build the citation network. The main...

This paper uses the 2007 and 2010 waves of the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) to investigate how monetary incentives affect the time and effort that interviewers expend during the survey field period, and how these incentives affect effort expended by the survey respondent. The results imply...

We analyse the long-term trends in wages in South Africa, using the data from the October Household Surveys, Labour Force Surveys and Quarterly Labour Force Surveys. We show that outliers and missing data need to be taken into consideration when working with these data. Our results show that...

Traffic data is used to estimate current traffic conditions so that travelers and agencies can make better decisions about how to use and manage the transportation network. This research explores the fusion of probe data (vehicle speed and direction) with loop data (density, speed, and count) in...

Statistics Canada’s General Social Survey (GSS) and Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) offer a valuable opportunity to examine the stability of life satisfaction responses and their correlates from year to year within a consistent analytical framework. Capitalizing on the strengths of...

Reports initial findings from a synthesis and reanalysis of all available evidence on whether quasi-experimental evaluation designs produced unbiased estimates of the impacts of education, training, and welfare programs. This methodological paper tries to understand conditions under which...

Administrative records can help address potential bias from survey nonresponse. This article cautions that administrative records may not cover the entire population of interest, may use a different unit of observation, may have wide variation in data quality across items or by agency, and may...