Survey Data Collection and Integration

<p>Part 1: Introduction to Statistical Surveys: Critical Points, Challenges and Need for Development (Luigi Biggeri).- Part 2: Questionnaire Design: Measurement Scales for Scoring or Ranking Sets of Interrelated Items (Luigi Fabbris).- Assessing Multi‐Item Scales for Subjective Measurement (Cristina Davino and Rosaria Romano).- Statistical Tools in the Joint Analysis of Closed and Open‐Ended Questions (Simona Balbi and Nicole Triunfo).- The Use of Self‐Anchoring Scales in Social Research: The Cantril Scale for the Evaluation of Community Action Orientation (Immacolata Di Napoli and Caterina Arcidiacono).- Part 3: Sampling Design and Error Estimation: Small Area Estimation of Poverty Indicators ( Monica Pratesi, Caterina Giusti and Stefano Marchetti).- Non‐Sampling Errors in Household Surveys: The Bank of Italy’s Experience (Giovanni D’Alessio and Giuseppe Ilardi).- Part 4: Data Integration: Enriching a Large Scale Survey from a Representative Sample by Data Fusion: Models and Validation (Tomàs Aluja‐Banet, Josep Daunis‐i‐Estadella and Yan Hong Chen).- A Business Survey on Job Vacancies: Integration with Other Sources and Calibration (Diego Bellisai, Stefania Fivizzani and Marina Sorrentino).</p>