Survey research methods

Author Floyd Fowler provides students and researchers who want to collect, analyze, or read about survey data with a sound basis for evaluating how each aspect of a survey can affect its precision, accuracy, and credibility

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fowler, Floyd J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, California : SAGE , c2014
Edition:5th ed
Series:Applied social research methods series
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Types of error in surveys
  • 3. Sampling
  • 4. Nonresponse: implementing a sample design
  • 5. Methods of data collection
  • 6. Designing questions to be good measures
  • 7. Evaluating survey questions and instruments
  • 8. Survey interviewing
  • 9. Preparing survey data for analysis
  • 10. Analyzing survey data
  • 11. Ethical issues in survey research
  • 12. Providing information about survey methods
  • 13. Survey error in perspective