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The Survey Research Handbook: Guidelines and Strategies for Conducting a Survey

Pamela L. Alreck, Robert B. Settle

A comprehensive practical guidebook covering all aspects of survey research methodology, from planning and design through data collection, processing, analysis, and reporting. Written in accessible language for both inexperienced researchers and experienced professionals.

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What this book knows

Survey research is a discipline of controlled decisions—every choice in sampling, questioning, and analysis either clarifies or distorts what people actually think.

Sex: Absent
Work: Present
Learning: Primary
Religion: Absent

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mind-and-cognition

Too much detail is confusing. It hides, rather than reveals, the meaningful information.
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The effect of systematic bias is to push or pull the results in one or another specific direction.
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Random error reduces the reliability of the data, and it also reduces the validity of the data indirectly, by reducing the reliability.
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Random in this context doesn't mean haphazard. Random samples are extremely important to the reliability and validity of the data.
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This handbook brings together all the different techniques and principles, skills and activities required to do a really effective survey.
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Additional time spent on the final preparation and checking of a questionnaire often pays for itself many times over when data processing begins.
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