
How to Conduct Surveys
A Step-by-step Guide
Arlene Fink(Author)
SAGE Publications Inc (Publisher)
4th Edition
Published on 29. September 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-1-4129-6668-9 (ISBN)
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Description
Popular for helping readers to organize and evaluate the credibility of surveys, the third edition of "How to Conduct Surveys: A Step-by-Step Guide" also pays particular attention to four issues in survey research which have become prominent since the publication of the second edition. This version of the text covers how to organize data for analysis, teaching readers to, for example, create a code book. The work also teaches audiences how to create reports and present them using computers. Moreover, this edition includes in depth coverage of human subjects protections - which is an issue about which today's surveyors must know. Finally, the text prepares researchers and students to employ the Internet and e-mail in their work.
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Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4129-6668-9 (9781412966689)
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Person
Arlene Fink (Ph.D.) 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) Paris, France and Peninsula Health in Victoria, Australia. Professor Fink has taught and lectured extensively all over the world and is the author of over 130 peer-reviewed articles and 15 textbooks.
Content
Preface Chapter 1: Conducting Surveys: Everyone Is Doing It Chapter 2: The Survey Form: Questions, Scales, and Appearance Chapter 3: Getting It Together: Some Practical Concerns Chapter 4: Sampling Chapter 5: Survey Design: Environmental Control Chapter 6: Analyzing & Organizing Data From Surveys Chapter 7: Presenting the Survey Results Index