"…with this volume a hardly discovered area is systematically 'scouted' and by doing this the authors take a big step from the 'art of asking questions' to a 'science of asking questions.'" (Journal of Official Statistics, June 2003)

"...reviews in detail the complex interaction between the interviewer and the respondent in the context of the survey interview." (Population and Development Review, Vol. 29, No. 2, June 2003)

"...provides a very comprehensive discussion of the topics under consideration here." (Technometrics, Vol. 45, No. 2, May 2003)

"Multi-disciplinary approaches to survey interviews are presented in this collection of papers..." (Reference & Research Book News, May 2002)