How to Sample in Surveys (The Survey Kit 7)

Arlene Fink

How to Sample in Surveys

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THE SURVEY KIT, Second Edition Purposes: The purposes of this 10-volume Ki t are to enable readers to prepare and conduct surveys and to help readers become better users of survey results. Surveys are conducted to collect information; surveyurs ask questions of people on the telephone, face-to-face, and by mail. The ques­ tions ca n be about attitudes, beliefs, and behavior as well as socioeco­ nomic and health status. To do a good survey, one must know how to plan and budget for all survey tasks, how to ask questions, how to design the survey (research) project, how to sample respondents, how to collect reli­ able and valid information, and how to analyze and report the results. Users: The Kit is for students in undergraduate and graduate classes in the social and health sciences and for individuals in the public and private sectors who are responsible for conducting and using surveys. Its primary goal is to enable users to prepare surveys and collect data that are accurate and useful for primarily practical purposes. Sometimes, these practical pur­ poses overlap with the objectives of scientific research, and so survey researchers will also find the Kit useful. Format of the Kit: All books in the series contain instructional objec­ tives, exercises and answers, examples of surveys in use and illustrations of survey questions, guidelines for action, checklists of dos and don'ts, and annotated references . Volumes in The Survey Kit: 1. The Survey Handbook, 2nd A rlene Fink

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3. How to Conduct Self-Administered and Mail Surveys, 2nd Linda B. Bourque and Eve P. Fielder

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S. How to Conduct In-Person Interviews for Surveys, 2nd Sabine Mertens Oishi

6. How to Design Survey Studies, 2nd Arlene Fink

7. How to Sample in Surveys, 2nd A rlene Fink

8. How to Assess and Interpret Survey Psychometrics, 2nd Mark S. L itwin 9. How to Manage, Analyze, and Interpret Survey Data, 2nd Arlene Fin k

10. How to Report on Surveys, 2nd Arlene Fink

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