The survey methods workbook : from design to analysis / Alan Buckingham and Peter Saunders.
By: Buckingham, Alan (Alan David).
Contributor(s): Saunders, Peter.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2004General Notes: Includes index.Description: xiii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780745622446; 9780745622453.Subject(s): Social surveys -- Methodology | Social sciences -- Research -- MethodologyDDC classification: 300/.7/23 Online resources: Table of contentsItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 300.723 B8561 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003865656 |
Includes index.
Part I. Research design -- Discovering facts, testing theories -- When is a survey appropriate? -- Part II. Data collection -- Preparing a questionnaire -- Drawing a sample -- Interviewing, coding and scaling -- Preparing a data file -- Part III. Data analysis -- Describing and exploring data -- Analyzing the strength of association between variables -- Inferring population parameters from sample statistics -- Modelling associations between veriables.
This new textbook provides a concise but comprehensive guide to quantitative research methods for undergraduate and postgraduate students in all of the social sciences, as well as established researchers. Presented in an interesting and original way, it offers all you need to know about social survey methodology -- from planning the research and developing the hypotheses to carrying out the fieldwork and analysing the findings.
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