Surveys in social research / David de Vaus.
Material type: TextSeries: Social research today | Social research todayPublication details: London : Routledge, 2001.Edition: 5th edDescription: xii, 411p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780415268578 (hbk.) :
- 9780415268585 (pbk.) :
- 0415268583(pbk.)
- 300.723 DEV
- H62
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Previous ed.: London: UCL, 1996.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.