Doing survey research : a guide to quantitative methods / Peter M. Nardi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nardi, Peter M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social surveys.

Social sciences--Research--Methodology.

Social sciences.

Sampling (Statistics).

Physical Description:

ix, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Boulder ; London : Paradigm Publishers, [2014]

Summary:

The significantly updated third edition of this short, practical book prepares students to write a questionnaire, generate a sample, conduct their own survey research, analyze data, and write up the results, while learning to read and interpret excerpts from published research. It combines statistics and survey research methods in a single book. Features of the Third Edition: Updates data and examples from contemporary academic and popular articles, including ones focused on topics related to social media, websites, and blogs, relevant to today's web-oriented students. Strengthens connections between questionnaire design, online surveys, and statistical analysis. Includes new methods for web-based surveys-and discussion of issues the surveys raise. Expands research examples to reflect a greater diversity of subject fields and topics, such as sociology, education, political science, health, social work, psychology, and communications. Emphasizes getting students to learn how to interpret statistics, not just to calculate them. Adds new "Test Yourself" exercises to each chapter with answers in the appendix and on the publisher's webpage for the book: http://www.paradigmpublishers.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productlD=356915. Accompanied by an author-written Instructor's Manual with test questions. Provides additional guidance, research ideas, references, and examples for each chapter of the book on the new Doing Survey Research website: http://doingsurveyresearch.wordpress.com/. Book jacket.

Contents:

Preface

Why we do research

Finding ideas to research

Designing research : concepts, hypotheses, and measurement

Developing a questionnaire

Sampling

Presenting data: descriptive statistics

Analyzing data : bivariate relationships

Analyzing data : comparing means

Analyzing data : multiple variables

Presenting results, making conclusions, and writing reports

Appendix

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-254) and index.

ISBN:

9781612053066

1612053068

9781612053257

1612053254

OCLC:

823473393

Publisher Number:

99968757093