Entry:
Acock, Alan C., "Measurement Error in Secondary Data Analysis," Research in the Sociology of Education and Socialization, 8 (1989), 201-230.
Abstract:
When measurement error in research items is not negligible, researchers generate unbiased estimates of the wrong parameters. There needs to be more graduate level education on measurement error, more caution in collapsing continuous data into a few categories, and the development of new techniques for the analysis of covariance to address measurement and error in more powerful ways.
GSS Years:1972-86
Other Data Sets:
NOS 1991, IAB 1998
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GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document: |
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Variable Name |
Variable Label |
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| EDUC |
HIGHEST YEAR OF SCHOOL COMPLETED |
| INCOME |
TOTAL FAMILY INCOME |
| RACE |
RACE OF RESPONDENT |
| SEX |
RESPONDENTS SEX |
| AGE |
AGE OF RESPONDENT |
| HAPPY |
GENERAL HAPPINESS |
| HAPMAR |
HAPPINESS OF MARRIAGE |
| ABNOMORE |
MARRIED--WANTS NO MORE CHILDREN |
| ABDEFECT |
STRONG CHANCE OF SERIOUS DEFECT |
| ABANY |
ABORTION IF WOMAN WANTS FOR ANY REASON |
| ABSINGLE |
NOT MARRIED |
| ABPOOR |
LOW INCOME--CANT AFFORD MORE CHILDREN |
| ABRAPE |
PREGNANT AS RESULT OF RAPE |
| ABHLTH |
WOMANS HEALTH SERIOUSLY ENDANGERED |
| RELIG |
RS RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE |
| RELITEN |
STRENGTH OF AFFILIATION |