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- 1b: Teaching with Survey Data
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- 1d: Workshop and presentations for ASSESS (SPSS users in Europe)
- 2: Survey Research Practice
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- 2b: Major survey series
- 3: Subjective Social Indicators (Quality of Life)
- 4: Survey Unit, Social Science Research Council (UK)
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2: Survey Research Practice
[Page last updated 27 Feb 2016]
This section covers survey methods in general and has links to useful resources, but there are no learning materials as such.
For a good general introduction, see What is a survey? (American Statistical Association booklet, 68 pp., 2004 by Fritz Scheuren: combines as chapters a series of separate earlier pamphlets starting with What is a survey? by Robert Ferber, Chair, Paul Sheatsley, Anthony Turner and Joseph Waksberg, ASA, 1980 )
Flow diagram of the stages of a survey (from page 8 of Scheuren above). These days we should perhaps add a Stage 7: Secondary analysis
I have also uploaded a range of papers, reports and other documents (some not easily available, if at all) relating to the dozens of surveys in which I have been involved since 1965. These are mainly from my time at the SSRC Survey Unit (1970 - 1976, including extensive materials from the Quality of Life in Britain surveys) and from my Survey Research Unit at the then Polytechnic of North London (1976 - 1992). I have also uploaded, with permission, a selection of (links to) useful websites and relevant articles and papers by others.