Methodological Issues in Social Surveys

✍ Scribed by Mavis Maclean, Hazel Genn (auth.)

Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Year: 1979
Tongue: English
Leaves: 126
Series: Oxford Socio-Legal Studies
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Alternative Sources of Data....Pages 6-20
Developing a Screening Instrument....Pages 21-57
Proxy Response in Social Surveys....Pages 58-77
The Choice of a Method of Data Collection....Pages 78-98
Sample Design....Pages 99-116
Back Matter....Pages 117-118

✦ Subjects

Methodology of the Social Sciences

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