Design, Evaluation, and Analysis of Questionnaires for Survey Research, 2nd Edition

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This second edition of the book would not have been possible without the dedicated cooperation in the data collection by the national coordinators of the ESS in the different countries and the careful work of our colleagues in the central coordinating team of the ESS.

All the collected data has been analyzed by a team of dedicated researchers of the Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology, especially Daniel Oberski, Melanie Revilla, Diana Zavala Rojas, and our visiting scholar Laur Lilleoja. We can only hope that they will continue their careful work in order to improve the predictions of SQP even more in the future. The program would not have been created without the work of two programmers Daniel Oberski and Tom Grüner.

Finally, we would like to thank our publisher Wiley for giving us the opportunity to realize the second edition of the book. A very important role was also played by Maricia Fischer-Souan who was able to transform some of our awkward English phrases into proper ones.

Last but not least, we would like to thank the many scholars who have commented on the different versions of the book and the program. Without their stimulating support and criticism, the book would not have been written.