A Companion to Survey Research provides a critical overview and guide to survey methods. Rather than a set of formulas, survey design is understood as a craft where the translation of research questions into a questionnaire, sample design and data collection strategy is based on understanding how respondents answer questions and their willingness to complete a survey. Following an account of the invention of survey research in the 1930s, a synthesis of research on question design is followed by a practical guide to designing a questionnaire. Chapters on sampling, which deal with the statistical basis of survey sampling and practical design issues, are followed by extensive discussions of survey pretesting and data collection. The book concludes with a discussion of the extent and implications of falling response rates. This book is written for researchers, analysts and policy makers who want to understand the survey data they use, for researchers and students who want to conduct a survey, and for anyone who wants to understand contemporary survey research.

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Handbook of Survey Research provides an introduction to the theory and practice of sample survey research. It addresses both the student who desires to master these topics and the practicing survey researcher who needs a source that codifies, rationalizes, and presents existing theory and practice. The handbook can be organized into three major parts. Part 1 sets forth the basic theoretical issues involved in sampling, measurement, and management of survey organizations. Part 2 deals mainly with ""hands-on,"" how-to-do-it issues: how to draw theoretically acceptable samples, how to write questionnaires, how to combine responses into appropriate scales and indices, how to avoid response effects and measurement errors, how actually to go about gathering survey data, how to avoid missing data (and what to do when you cannot), and other topics of a similar nature. Part 3 considers the analysis of survey data, with separate chapters for each of the three major multivariate analysis modes and one chapter on the uses of surveys in monitoring overtime trends. This handbook will be valuable both to advanced students and to practicing survey researchers seeking a detailed guide to the major issues in the design and analysis of sample surveys and to current state of the art practices in sample surveys.

Covers problem formulation, planning, questionnaire design, sampling, the conduct of interviews, statistical analysis and the presentation of the results.

Scientific notes and summaries of investigations in geology, hydrology, and related fields.

Focusing on the use of technology in survey research, this book integrates both theory and application and covers important elements of survey research including survey design, implementation and continuing data management.

This book is written in a user-friendly style for persons in business, government and non-profit organizations who want to write and/or execute a survey using either the in-person, mail, telephone or web methods or who want a good grounding in survey research methods without all the jargon. A short introduction to survey research is provided in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 focuses on ethics using examples from national and international professional associations. Chapter 3 describes how to propose a survey within an organization and provides examples. Chapter 4 focuses on probability sampling methods used in survey research. Chapters 5 to 8 show how to develop and field a survey using the mail, in-person, telephone and the web and provides example question formats, overall questionnaire design and cover letters for each method. Chapters 9 and 10 show one how to do data entry and data analysis (frequencies, crosstabulations and multiple regression). The next to the last chapter shows how to present your results using charts, and the final chapter provides a sample research report. Advanced sources are recommended for those who want to specialize in survey research or subfields of sampling and/or data analysis.