De Vaus, D. A. <br/><br/>
Surveys in social research / 
David de Vaus. 
 - 5th ed. 
 - London :  Routledge,  2002. 
 - xvii, 379 p. :  ill. ;  26 cm. 
 - Social research today .
 - Social research today. .
<br/><br/> Previous ed.: London: UCL, 1996. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415268578 (cased) 0415268575 (cased) 0415268583 (pbk.) 9780415268585 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social surveys.<br/>Social sciences--Research--Methodology.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HN29  / .D27 2002 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>300.723