De Vaus, D. A. <br/><br/>
Surveys in social research / 
David de Vaus. 
 - 5th ed. 
 - London :  Routledge,  2001. 
 - xii, 411p. ;  22 cm. 
 - Social research today .
 - Social research today .
<br/><br/> Previous ed.: London: UCL, 1996. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>The scope of survey research: the nature of surveys --theory and social research-- formulating and clarifying research questions-- Collecting data: developing indicators for concepts--Ethics and data collection-- finding a sample-- constructing questionnaires-- administering questionnaires --Setting up the data for analysis--coding--Preparing variables for analysis--Building scales--Analyzing Survey data: overview of analysis-- univariate analysis-- bivariate analysis : nominal and ordinal variables--Bivariate analysis for interval-level variables--Elaborating bivariate relationships--Multivariate analysis-- Putting it into practice: a research example. 
<br/><br/> As well as explaining how to conduct effective social research surveys the author of Surveys in Social Research provides a range of tools to enable the reader to become a critical consumer of research findings. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415268578 (hbk.) :  �60.00 9780415268585 (pbk.) :  �18.99 0415268583(pbk.)  �25.13 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social surveys.<br/>Social sciences--Research--Methodology<br/>Society.<br/>Sociology<br/>Research methods: general<br/>Social theory<br/>Social research & statistics
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>H62 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>300.723 DEV