CALL FOR PAPERS:  TOTAL SURVEY ERROR

Public Opinion Quarterly seeks submissions for a 2010 special issue 
of the journal devoted to Total Survey Error.

The total survey error concept emphasizes the interactions among 
multiple error sources arising from the measurement process, 
non-response, the sampling frame, the sampling process and data 
processing.  Papers that deal with only one source of error (such as 
non-response bias or measurement error variance) are discouraged. 
Some examples of topics that are solicited in this call include but 
are not limited to:

--simultaneous evaluations of the contributions to survey error of 
two or more error sources; for example, the interaction between 
nonresponse and measurement errors;

--methods for reducing the errors from multiple sources though 
optimal survey design and post-survey statistical adjustments;

--methods for simulating the effects of multiple error sources on the 
data quality;

--reviews of the literature and meta-analyses of total survey error 
and its impact on survey methodology;

--new methods for simulaneously estimating the multiple components of 
the total mean squared error;

--reports on efforts to evaluate total survey error in complex surveys;

--uses of prior estimates of nonsampling error in the design of new 
surveys or for allocating resources for survey error reduction;

--trade-offs among the components of total survey error; for example, 
the trade-off between sampling variance and nonsampling bias; and

--exemplary studies of nonsampling error components and their findings.

Highly technical papers are acceptable as long as they provide ample 
translation into language accessible by a less technical audience.

The deadline for manuscript submissions is February 15, 2010. To 
submit a manuscript, please follow the manuscript preparation 
instructions provided at the journal's website.

Blinded and unblinded electronic copies of the paper should be 
submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/poq, and it 
should be clearly stated in a cover letter that the manuscript is for 
consideration of the total survey error special issue.

Submissions will be peer-reviewed in accord with normal journal 
practice.  For queries about this special issue, please feel free to 
contact special guest editor, Paul P. Biemer at [log in to unmask]



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