Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Basic statistics and probability
- 3 Basic issues in surveys
- 4 Ethics of surveys of human populations
- 5 Designing a survey
- 6 Methods for conducting surveys of human populations
- 7 Focus groups
- 8 Design of survey instruments
- 9 Design of questions and question wording
- 10 Special issues for qualitative and preference surveys
- 11 Design of data collection procedures
- 12 Pilot surveys and pretests
- 13 Sample design and sampling
- 14 Repetitive surveys
- 15 Survey economics
- 16 Survey implementation
- 17 Web-based surveys
- 18 Coding and data entry
- 19 Data expansion and weighting
- 20 Nonresponse
- 21 Measuring data quality
- 22 Future directions in survey procedures
- 23 Documenting and archiving
- References
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Basic statistics and probability
- 3 Basic issues in surveys
- 4 Ethics of surveys of human populations
- 5 Designing a survey
- 6 Methods for conducting surveys of human populations
- 7 Focus groups
- 8 Design of survey instruments
- 9 Design of questions and question wording
- 10 Special issues for qualitative and preference surveys
- 11 Design of data collection procedures
- 12 Pilot surveys and pretests
- 13 Sample design and sampling
- 14 Repetitive surveys
- 15 Survey economics
- 16 Survey implementation
- 17 Web-based surveys
- 18 Coding and data entry
- 19 Data expansion and weighting
- 20 Nonresponse
- 21 Measuring data quality
- 22 Future directions in survey procedures
- 23 Documenting and archiving
- References
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012