How to Conduct Your Own Survey
How to Conduct Your Own Survey

Author: Priscilla Salant

Publisher: Wiley

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780471012733

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A nuts-and-bolts guide to conducting your own professional-qualitysurveys without paying professional fees. How can you gauge publicsupport for a cause or test the market for a product or service?What are the best methods for validating opinions for use in apaper or dissertation? A well-documented survey is the answer. Butwhat if you don't have thousands of dollars to commission one? Noproblem. How to Conduct Your Own Survey gives you everything youneed to do it yourself! Without any prior training, you can learnexpert techniques for conducting accurate, low-cost surveys. Instep-by-step, down-to-earth language, Priscilla Salant and Don A.Dillman give you the tools you need to: * Determine which type of survey is best for you * Estimate the cost of your survey * Conduct mail, telephone, and face-to-face surveys * Draw accurate samples * Write effective questionnaires * Compile and report results * Avoid common survey errors * Find reliable outside assistance * And much more

How to Conduct Your Own Survey
How to Conduct Your Own Survey

Author: Priscilla Salant

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1994-11-10

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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"How to Conduct Your Own Survey" gives readers everything needed to do it themselves. Without any prior training, they can learn expert techniques for conducting accurate, low-cost surveys. In step-by-step language, Priscilla Salant and Don. A. Dillman provide the tools readers need.

How To Conduct Surveys
How To Conduct Surveys

Author: Arlene Fink

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated

Published: 1998-03-10

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9780761914099

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Popular for helping readers to organize a rigorous survey and evaluate the credibility of other ones by giving them practical, step-by-step advice, the Second Edition of this book now also covers: computer-assisted and interactive surveys and how they contrast with telephone and face-to-face surveys; guidelines for preparing informed consent statements for survey respondents; ways to ensure the sample you have is large enough to detect a difference between groups (if one exists); ways to ask questions about ethnicity; how to read computer output containing survey results; how to prepare a structured abstract of a survey report; new survey data analysis techniques, such as odds ratios, relative risks, and confidence intervals as well as sampling techniques, such as snowball sampling; and guidelines for preparing overheads and slides to report survey results with illustrations of how an oral presentation of survey results differs from a written one.

How to Conduct Self-Administered and Mail Surveys
How to Conduct Self-Administered and Mail Surveys

Author:

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780761925620

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The Kit is for students in undergraduate and graduate classes in the social and health sciences and for individuals in the public and private sectors who are responsible for conducting and using surveys.

Conducting Online Surveys
Conducting Online Surveys

Author: Valerie M. Sue

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1412992257

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This book addresses the needs of researchers who want to conduct surveys online. Issues discussed include sampling from online populations, developing online and mobile questionnaires, and administering electronic surveys, are unique to digital surveys. Others, like creating reliable and valid survey questions, data analysis strategies, and writing the survey report, are common to all survey environments. This single resource captures the particulars of conducting digital surveys from start to finish

Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods
Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods

Author: Paul J. Lavrakas

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2008-09-12

Total Pages: 1073

ISBN-13: 150631788X

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To the uninformed, surveys appear to be an easy type of research to design and conduct, but when students and professionals delve deeper, they encounter the vast complexities that the range and practice of survey methods present. To complicate matters, technology has rapidly affected the way surveys can be conducted; today, surveys are conducted via cell phone, the Internet, email, interactive voice response, and other technology-based modes. Thus, students, researchers, and professionals need both a comprehensive understanding of these complexities and a revised set of tools to meet the challenges. In conjunction with top survey researchers around the world and with Nielsen Media Research serving as the corporate sponsor, the Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods presents state-of-the-art information and methodological examples from the field of survey research. Although there are other "how-to" guides and references texts on survey research, none is as comprehensive as this Encyclopedia, and none presents the material in such a focused and approachable manner. With more than 600 entries, this resource uses a Total Survey Error perspective that considers all aspects of possible survey error from a cost-benefit standpoint. Key Features Covers all major facets of survey research methodology, from selecting the sample design and the sampling frame, designing and pretesting the questionnaire, data collection, and data coding, to the thorny issues surrounding diminishing response rates, confidentiality, privacy, informed consent and other ethical issues, data weighting, and data analyses Presents a Reader′s Guide to organize entries around themes or specific topics and easily guide users to areas of interest Offers cross-referenced terms, a brief listing of Further Readings, and stable Web site URLs following most entries The Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods is specifically written to appeal to beginning, intermediate, and advanced students, practitioners, researchers, consultants, and consumers of survey-based information.

International Handbook of Survey Methodology
International Handbook of Survey Methodology

Author: Edith D. de Leeuw

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 113691062X

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Taking into account both traditional and emerging modes, this comprehensive new Handbook covers all major methodological and statistical issues in designing and analyzing surveys. With contributions from the world's leading survey methodologists and statisticians, this invaluable new resource provides guidance on collecting survey data and creating meaningful results. Featuring examples from a variety of countries, the book reviews such things as how to deal with sample designs, write survey questions, and collect data on the Internet. A thorough review of the procedures associated with multiple modes of collecting sample survey information and applying that combination of methods that fit the situation best is included. The International Handbook of Survey Methodology opens with the foundations of survey design, ranging from sources of error, to ethical issues. This is followed by a section on design that reviews sampling challenges and tips on writing and testing questions for multiple methods. Part three focuses on data collection, from face-to-face interviews, to Internet and interactive voice response, to special challenges involved in mixing these modes within one survey. Analyzing data from both simple and complex surveys is then explored, as well as procedures for adjusting data. The book concludes with a discussion of maintaining quality. Intended for advanced students and researchers in the behavioral, social, and health sciences, this "must have" resource will appeal to those interested in conducting or using survey data from anywhere in the world, especially those interested in comparing results across countries. The book also serves as a state-of-the-art text for graduate level courses and seminars on survey methodology. A companion website contains additional readings and examples.

Designing and Conducting Health Surveys
Designing and Conducting Health Surveys

Author: Lu Ann Aday

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-01-20

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 1118046676

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Designing and Conducting Health Surveys is written for students, teachers, researchers, and anyone who conducts health surveys. This third edition of the standard reference in the field draws heavily on the most recent methodological research on survey design and the rich storehouse of insights and implications provided by cognitive research on question and questionnaire design in particular. This important resource presents a total survey error framework that is a useful compass for charting the dangerous waters between systematic and random errors that inevitably accompany the survey design enterprise. In addition, three new studies based on national, international, and state and local surveys—the UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, California Health Interview Survey, and National Dental Malpractice Survey—are detailed that illustrate the range of design alternatives available at each stage of developing a survey and provide a sound basis for choosing among them.

In Your Own Voice
In Your Own Voice

Author: Homer L. Hall

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2014-12-15

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1499460279

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A good columnist needs to have lots of ideas to write about people and issues that affect them. This volume will show young writers how curiosity and close observation of the world around them can turn into a column with a distinctive voice, whether they are writing an editorial, a review, a sports column, or a humorous piece. Studying examples from famous columnists or fellow student journalists can help writers develop their own style. Other types of columns, such as letters to the editor and surveys, are also discussed.

A Handbook for Social Science Field Research
A Handbook for Social Science Field Research

Author: Ellen Perecman

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2006-01-24

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 141291681X

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This text contains a collection of essays and bibliographies providing both novice and experienced scholars with invaluable and accessible insights, as well as references to a select list of critical texts pertaining to a wide array of social science methods and practices useful when doing fieldwork.