TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Vaus,D.A.
TI  - Surveys in social research
SN  - 1865086118
U1  - 300.723 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Crows Nest, N.S.W.
PB  - Allen & Unwin
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Social surveys
N1  - Detailed contents. - Boxes, figures, web pointers and tables. - Preface. - Pt. I.  The scope of survey research. 1. The nature of surveys. 2. Theory and social research. 3. Formulating and clarifying research questions. - Pt. II. Collecting survey data. 4. Developing indicators for concepts. 5. Ethics and data collection. 6. Finding a sample. 7. Constructing questionnaires. 8. Administering questionnaires. - Pt. III. Setting up the data for analysis. 9. Coding. 10. Preparing variables for analysis. 11. Building scales. - Pt IV. Analysing survey data. 12. Overview of analysis. 13. Univariate. 14. Bivariate analysis : norminal and ordinal variables. 15. Bivariate analysis for interval-level variables. 16. Elaborating bivariate relationships. 17. Multivariate analysis. 18. Putting it into practice : a research example. - Glossary. - Biblography. - Index
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