
How To Conduct Surveys
A Step-by-Step Guide
SAGE Publications Inc (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 24. April 1998
Book
Hardback
112 pages
978-0-7619-1408-2 (ISBN)
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Description
Popular for helping readers to organize a rigorous survey and evaluate the credibility of other ones by giving them practical, step-by-step advice, the Second Edition of this book now also covers: computer-assisted and interactive surveys and how they contrast with telephone and face-to-face surveys; guidelines for preparing informed consent statements for survey respondents; ways to ensure the sample you have is large enough to detect a difference between groups (if one exists); ways to ask questions about ethnicity; how to read computer output containing survey results; how to prepare a structured abstract of a survey report; new survey data analysis techniques, such as odds ratios, relative risks, and confidence intervals as well as sampling techniques, such as snowball sampling; and guidelines for preparing overheads and slides to report survey results with illustrations of how an oral presentation of survey results differs from a written one.
Reviews / Votes
"The questionnaire design section contains many examples of how not to word questions. . . . The section on scaling is also useful and evaluators in education especially will find the summary of benefit. There is also a good section on types of evaluative research designs that might use surveys. Longitudinal surveys and normative designs are summarized concisely and clearly." * LA REVUE CANADIENNE D'EVALUATION DE PROGRAMME *More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 216 mm
Weight
650 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7619-1408-2 (9780761914082)
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Arlene Fink (PhD) is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, and president of the Langley Research Institute. Her main interests include evaluation and survey research and the conduct of research literature reviews as well as the evaluation of their quality. Dr. Fink has conducted scores of evaluation studies in public health, medicine, and education. She is on the faculty of UCLA's Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and is a scientific and evaluation advisor to UCLA's Gambling Studies and IMPACT (Improving Access, Counseling & Treatment for Californians with Prostate Cancer) programs. She consults nationally and internationally for agencies such as L'institut de Promotion del la Prevention Secondaire en Addictologie (IPPSA) in Paris, France, and Peninsula Health in Victoria, Australia. Professor Fink has taught and lectured extensively all over the world and is the author of more than 130 peer-reviewed articles and 15 textbooks.
Content
Conducting Surveys
Everyone Is Doing It
The Survey Form
Questions, Scales and Appearance
Getting It Together
Some Practical Concerns
Sampling
Survey Design
Environmental Control
Analyzing Data from Surveys
Presenting the Survey Results
Everyone Is Doing It
The Survey Form
Questions, Scales and Appearance
Getting It Together
Some Practical Concerns
Sampling
Survey Design
Environmental Control
Analyzing Data from Surveys
Presenting the Survey Results