Paradata

Abstract

"As part of all surveys (Reinecke, Chapter 49 in this volume), also data from the survey process are collected besides the actual survey data. In case of computer-aided surveys, these include, e.g., timestamps for entering answers which can be used to measure the time needed to answer a question, or automatically recorded mouse movements in a web survey. In a lecture at the Joint Statistical Meeting of the American Statistical Association in 1998 in Dallas, Mick Couper coined the phrase 'para data' for this kind of data (Couper 1998)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Felderer, B., Birg, A. & Kreuter, F. (2019): Paradaten. In: N. Baur & J. Blasius (Hrsg.) (2019): Handbuch Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung, p. 413-422. DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-21308-4_29