ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF AN INTENSIVE SURVEY IN RELATION TO COMMUNITY RESPONSE TO NOISE

✍ Scribed by K. Minoura; K. Hiramatsu

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 95 KB
• Volume: 205
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-460X
• DOI: 10.1006/jsvi.1997.1012

✦ Synopsis

The intensive method survey makes detailed descriptions of a small number of cases, while the extensive method seeks to derive general laws from quantitative (in most cases statistical) analysis of the information collected on limited factors from a large number of cases. Although the extensive method has been widely used, the present authors consider the intensive method most significant for social surveys of community responses to noise for the following reasons: More detailed information on people's response can be obtained. Accordingly, (1) hypotheses as to their responses can be found, and (2) extensive methods and results can be verified. Moreover, (3) the method of description of the sonic environment for people can be discussed. The intensive survey of the sonic environment consists of two parts; (1) the investigation of the sonic environment and (2) the investigation of the relation between people and their sonic environment. As for the part (1), items of investigation, spatial density of observation points, and temporal density of observation should be discussed. As for the part (2), although questionnaires consisting of alternative questions are widely used, more appropriate methods for obtaining community responses should be discussed in order to comprehend how people recognize their sonic environment, e.g., using free answer questionnaires or interviewing.