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Asking survey questions: identifying problems
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Cognitive Interviewing
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• Cannell, C., Miller, P., & Oksenberg, L. (1981). Research on Interviewing Techniques. Sociological Methodology, 12, 389-437. http://www.jstor.org/stable/270748
• Collins, D. (2003) Pretesting Survey Instruments: An overview of cognitive methods. 12(3): 229-238 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1023254226592
• Fowler FJ, Mangione TW. Standardized Survey Interviewing: Minimizing Interviewer-Related Error. Applied Social Research Methods Series: 18. Newbury Park: Sage, 1990.
• Oksenberg, L., Cannell, C., Kalton, G., (1991) New Strategies for Pretesting Survey Questions. Journal of Official Statistics. 7(3), 349 https://search.proquest.com/docview/1266806850?pq-origsite=gscholar
• Tourangeau R. Cognitive sciences and survey methods. In: Jabine T, Straf M, Tanur J, Tourangeau R (eds). Cognitive Aspects of Survey Methodology: Building a Bridge Between the Disciplines. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1984: 73?100.
• Willis, G.B., Royston, P., Bercini, D. (1991) The Use of Verbal Report Methods in the Development and Testing of Survey Questionnaires. Applied Coognitive Psychology. 5;3:251-267. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/acp.2350050307
  
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• Beatty, P., Collins, D., Kaye, L., Padilla, J. L., Willis, G., Wilmot, A. [Eds] (forthcoming) Advances ii Questionnaire Design, Development, Evaluation and Testing. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley
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• Collins, D [Ed] (2015) Cognitive Interviewing Practice. London: Sage
• Miller, K., Willson, S., Chepp, V, Padilla, J.L. [Ed] (2014) Cognitive Interviewing Methodology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley
• Willis, G.B. (2005) Cognitive Interviewing: A Tool for Improving Questionnaire Design. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications Inc.