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De Vaus, D. A.

Surveys in social research / David de Vaus. - 5th ed. - London : Routledge, 2002. - xvii, 379 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. - Social research today . - Social research today. .

Previous ed.: London: UCL, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Scope of survey research -- Nature of surveys -- Theory and social research -- Formulating and clarifying research questions -- Collecting survey data -- Developing indicators for concepts -- Ethics and data collection -- Finding a sample -- Constructing and 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 -- Biavariate analysis for interval-level variables -- Elaborating bivariate relationships -- Multivariate analysis -- Putting it into practices: a research example.

ISBN: 9780415268578 (cased) 0415268575 (cased) 0415268583 (pbk.) 9780415268585 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social surveys.
Social sciences--Research--Methodology.

LC Class. No.: HN29 / .D27 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 300.723