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- My personal pantheon (of the great and the good in survey research)
- Recent and planned activities
- Textbooks for Research Methods and Data Analysis
- 1: Survey Analysis Workshop (SPSS)
- 1a: Statistical concepts and methods
- 1b: Teaching with Survey Data
- 1c: Developing research projects using survey data
- 1d: Workshop and presentations for ASSESS (SPSS users in Europe)
- 2: Survey Research Practice
- 2a: Survey Research Methodology, Practice and Training
- 2b: Major survey series
- 3: Subjective Social Indicators (Quality of Life)
- 4: Survey Unit, Social Science Research Council (UK)
- 5a: Polytechnic of North London (1976-1992)
- 5b: Survey Research Unit (1978-1992)
- Village life in Normandy
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- Origins of the British Crime Survey
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Courses, Conferences and Seminars
Summer Schools in Survey Methods
Residential courses, previously run by Nuffield College, held in Oxford from 1970 to 1976. Taught by senior practitioners from USA and UK.
Year Location Course leader
1970 Nuffield College David Butler
1971 Nuffield College David Butler
1972 St Edmund Hall Mayer Zald (ISR Michigan)
1973 St Catherine's College James A Davis (NORC Chicago)
1974 St Catherine's College James A Davis (NORC Chicago)
1975 Reading University Joe Spaeth (NORC Chicago)
Year Location Course leader
1970 Nuffield College David Butler
1971 Nuffield College David Butler
1972 St Edmund Hall Mayer Zald (ISR Michigan)
1973 St Catherine's College James A Davis (NORC Chicago)
1974 St Catherine's College James A Davis (NORC Chicago)
1975 Reading University Joe Spaeth (NORC Chicago)
Survey Research and Social Theory
In 1972-73 the SSRC Survey Unit organised a series of seminars chaired by Prof Morris Janowitz (Chicago) who was on sabbatical. The theme was "Survey Research and Social Theory" and the intention was that authors should present papers based on secondary analysis. In the event two papers were genuine secondary analysis: a planned paper by John Hall (analysis of data from the Quality of Life survey to test Maslow's theory of the hierarchy of human needs) didn't get past the early outline stage as he finished up doing all the (primary) analysis for some of the other authors! The proceedings were published as;
Tim Leggatt [Ed]
Sociological Theory and Survey Research
(Sage 1974)
[Reference added 21 May 2016]
The Social Ecology of Urban Renewal
is John Hall's 1972 proposal, in very poor pdf format scanned on a cheap Dell scanner (almost line-by-line)
Tim Leggatt [Ed]
Sociological Theory and Survey Research
(Sage 1974)
[Reference added 21 May 2016]
The Social Ecology of Urban Renewal
is John Hall's 1972 proposal, in very poor pdf format scanned on a cheap Dell scanner (almost line-by-line)
Social Science Data and the New SPSS
International conference at LSE in 1974 organised by John Hall for the Study Group on Computers in Survey Analysis (a precursor of the Association for Survey Computing)
Survey Research, Social Theory and Social Policy
John Hall also organised a separate SSRC Survey Unit seminar "Social Theory, Social Policy and Survey Research" at the same conference at which Dr Mark Abrams read his paper "Social Surveys, Social Theory and Social Policy "