TY - BOOK AU - De Vaus,D.A. TI - Surveys in social research T2 - Social research today SN - 9780415268578 (cased) AV - HN29 .D27 2002 U1 - 300.723 21 PY - 2002/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Social surveys KW - Social sciences KW - Research KW - Methodology N1 - 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 UR - http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=010551096&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA ER -