Survey Questions: Handcrafting the Standardized Questionnaire (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)

✍ Scribed by Jean M. Converse, Dr. Stanley Presser

Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Year: 1986
Tongue: English
Leaves: 88
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Survey Questions is a highly readable guide to the principles of writing survey questions. The authors review recent research on survey questions, consider the lore of professional experience and finally present those findings which have the strongest implications on writing these questions.

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