Information about income from interviews

Abstract

At the core of continuing debate in social research is the question, posed succinctly by Bynner and Stribley (1979), 'How can we formulate a rigorous strategy for investigating social phenomena and how can we implement it?' As was pointed out in a recent article by Whelan and O Muircheartaigh (1978) in The Economic and Social Review, a well developed theory exists to deal with estimating variable sampling errors, but, apart from studies of interviewer variance, little work has been done on nonsampling errors. (For a review, see Boyd and Westfall, 1979.)