Part I: Basic Principles
1. Introduction - Yang-chih Fu, Dominique Joye, Tom W. Smith and Christof Wolf
2. Survey standards - Tom W. Smith
3. Total survey error: a paradigm for survey methodology - Lars E. Lyberg and Herbert F. Weisberg
4. Challenges of comparative survey research - Timothy P. Johnson and Michael Braun
Part II: Surveys and Societies
5. Surveys and society - Claire Durand
6. Defining and assessing survey climate - Geert Loosveldt and Dominique Joye
7. The Ethical issues of survey and market research - Kathy Joe, Finn Raben and Adam Phillips
8. Observations on the historical development of polling - Kathleen A. Frankovic
Part III: Planning a Survey
9. Research question and designs for survey research - Ben Jann and Thomas Hinz
10. Total survey error paradigm: : Theory and Practice - Paul P. Biemer
11. Survey mode or survey modes? - Edith de Leeuw and Jernej Berzelak
12. Surveying in multi-cultural and multi-national contexts - Beth-Ellen Pennell and Kristen Cibelli-Hibben
13. Surveys in societies in turmoil - Zeina N. Mneimneh, Beth-Ellen Pennell, Jennifer Kelley and Kristen Cibelli-Hibben
Part IV: Measurement
14. What does Measurement Mean in a Survey Context? - Jaak Billiet
15. Cognitive models of answering processes - Kristen Miller and Gordon B. Willis
16. Designing questions and questionnaires - Jolene D. Smyth
17. Creating a good question: how to use cumulative experience - Melanie Revilla, Diana Zavala-Rojas and Willem Saris
18. Designing a mixed-mode survey - Don A. Dillman and Michelle L. Edwards
19. The Translation of Measurement Instruments for Cross-cultural Surveys - Dorothée Behr and Kuniaki Shishido
20. When Translation is not Enough: Background Variables in Comparative Surveys - Silke Schneider, Dominique Joye and Christof Wolf
Part V: Sampling
21. Basics of sampling for survey research - Yves Tillé and Alina Matei
22. Nonprobability sampling - Vasja Vehovar, Vera Toepoel and Stephanie Steinmetz
23. Special challenges of sampling for comparative surveys - Siegfried Gabler and Sabine Häder
Part VI: Data Collection
24. Questionnaire pretesting - Gordon B. Willis
25. Survey fieldwork - Annelies G. Blom
26. Responsive and adaptive designs - François Laflamme and James Wagner
27. Unit nonresponse - Ineke A. L. Stoop
28. Incentives as a possible measure to increase response rates - Michèle Ernst Stähli and Dominique Joye
Part VII: Preparing Data for Use
29. Documenting Survey Data Across the Life Cycle - Mary Vardigan, Peter Granda and Lynette Hoelter
30. Weighting: principles and practicalities - Pierre Lavallée and Jean-François Beaumont
31. Analysis of data from stratified and clustered surveys - Stephanie Eckman and Brady T. West
32. Analytical Potential Versus Data Confidentiality - Finding the Optimal Balance - Heike Wirth
33. Harmonizing Survey Questions Between Cultures and Over Time - Christof Wolf, Silke L. Schneider, Dorothée Behr and Dominique Joye
Part VIII: Assessing and Improving Data Quality
34. Survey data quality and measurement precision - Duane F. Alwin
35. Nonresponse error: detection and correction - Jelke Bethlehem and Barry Schouten
36. Response styles in surveys: understanding their causes and mitigating their impact - Caroline Roberts
37. Dealing with missing values - Martin Spiess
38. Another Look at Survey Data Quality - Victor Thiessen and Jörg Blasius
39. Assessment of cross-cultural comparability - Jan Cieciuch, Eldad Davidov, Peter Schmidt and René Algesheimer
Part IX: Further Issues
40. Data preservation, secondary analysis, and replication: learning from existing data - Lynette Hoelter, Amy Pienta and Jared Lyle
41. Record linkage - Rainer Schnell
42. Supplementing cross-national surveys with contextual data - Jessica Fortin-Rittberger, David Howell, Stephen Quinlan and Bojan Todosijevic
43. The Globalization of surveys - Tom W. Smith and Yang-chih Fu