Surveys In Social Research (Paperback, 6 ed)

Part I: The Scope of Survey Research  1. The Nature of Surveys  2. Theory and Social Research  3. Formulating and Clarifying Research Questions  Part II: Collecting Survey Data  4. Developing Indicators for Concepts  5. Ethics and Data Collection  6. Finding a Sample  7. Constructing Questionnaires  8. Administering Questionnaires  Part III: Setting Up the Data for Analysis  9. Coding  10. Preparing Variables for Analysis  11. Building Scales  Part IV: Analysing Survey Data  12. Overview of Analysis  13. Univariate Analysis  14. Bivariate Analysis: Nominal and Ordinal Variables  15. Bivariate Analysis for Interval-Level Variables  16. Elaborate Bivariate Relationships  17. Multivariate Analysis  18. Putting It into Practice: A Research Example.  Glossary.  Bibliography