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London u.a.
Unwin Hyman
1990
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| Series: | Contemporary social research series
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| Physical Description: | XIII, 343 S. |
| ISBN: | 0044457227 |
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Tables and figures vi
Preface xi
Parti THE SCOPE OF SURVEY RESEARCH
1 The nature of surveys 3
2 Theory and social research 11
3 Formulating and clarifying research questions 27
Part II COLLECTING DATA
4 Developing indicators for concepts 47
5 Finding a sample 60
6 Constructing questionnaires 80
7 Administering questionnaires 98
Part III ANALYSING DATA
8 Overview of analysis 121
9 Univariate analysis 129
10 Bivariate analysis: crosstabulations 144
11 Bivariate analysis: alternative methods 162
12 Elaborating bivariate relationships 187
13 Multivariate analysis 202
Part IV THE PROCESS OF ANALYSIS
14 Coding 223
15 Building scales 233
16 Initial analysis 250
17 Moving beyond initial analysis 260
18 Putting it into practice: a research example 273
19 The potential of surveys 298
Appendix A Areas of the normal curve 304
Appendix B Exercises 306
Bibliography 330
Index 335
Tables and figures
Tables
1.1 A variable by case matrix 4
5.1 A table of random numbers 63
5.2 An illustration of stratified sampling 66
5.3 Grid for selecting individuals in multistage sampling 69
5.4 Sample sizes required for various sampling errors 71
5.5 Required sample sizes for varying homogeneity and
accuracy 72
7.1 Advantages and disadvantages of mail, personal and
telephone methods of administering questionnaires 105
7.2 Supplies per 100 sample members in a mail survey 113
8.1 Working out levels of measurement 123
8.2 List of some methods of analysis for survey analysis 126
9.1 A frequency table for income 129
9.2 Frequency table for marital status 131
9.3 Frequency of adults seeing their mother 132
9.4 Frequency table of beliefs about the effect of
conservative governments on the level of industrial
disputes 134
9.5 Calculating the mean 136
9.6 The same mean for two different distributions 136
9.7 Working out the standard deviation 138
9.8 Per cent within various standard deviations for
various types of distribution 139
9.9 Selecting statistics for univariate analysis 143
10.1 Vote by occupation (raw figures) 145
10.2 Vote by occupation (percentages) 146
10.3 Vote by occupation (column percentages only) 148
10.4 Income by education (a positive linear relationship) 149
10.5 Education by age (a negative linear relationship) 149
10.6 Achievement motivation by number of sibs (a linear
relationship) 150
10.7 Income by age (a curvilinear relationship) 150
10.8 Vote by marital status (no clear pattern) 151
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Tables and figures vii
10.9 A complete table and a skeleton table 151
10.10 Three different strengths of association 153
10.11 Approval of disarmament by political orientation
(observed frequencies) 154
10.12 Approval of disarmament by political orientation
(expected frequencies) 155
10.13 Frequency distribution of faculty of enrolment 156
10.14 Faculty enrolment by gender 156
10.15 Characteristics of various measures of association 157
10.16 The ranks of five individuals on two variables 158
11.1 Regression co efficients of years of tertiary education
on income 171
11.2 Income by gender 175
11.3 A correlation matrix 177
11.4 The links between correlations and tests of
significance 182
11.5 Guidelines for selecting measures of association 183
12.1 Religiousness by type of schooling 192
12.2 Religiousness by school type controlling for parental
religiousness 193
12.3 Expectations of children by education level 195
12.4 Expectations by educational level by type of
work requirements 196
12.5 Religiousness by school type controlling for gender 198
12.6 Examples of patterns of partial correlations and their
interpretation 200
12.7 Interpreting conditional relationships 200
13.1 Variable names, descriptions and symbols 202
13.2 Partial regressions of three independent variables
with INC 206
13.3 Partial regressions of three variables on INC for men
and women 206
13.4 Subgroup means and b co efficients for men and
women 208
13.5 Constructing dummy variables and codes 211
15.1 An illustration of scale testing co efficients 240
16.1 Recoding to rearrange the order of categories 251
16.2 Relationship between education and gender
(collapsed and uncollapsed form) 253
16.3 Illustration of trichotomising a variable 255
16.4 Level of deference by level of education 258
17.1 An illustration of how recoding can mask a
relationship 262
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17.2 Relationship between husband s education and wife s
education 270
18.1 Reliability statistics for the three religion scales 279
18.2 Variables, definitions and means 282
18.3 Gender differences in religion using different
methods of analysis 283
18.4 Religious scales by gender controlling for workforce
participation (crosstabulation analysis) 285
18.5 Workforce participation and religious orientation:
differences in regression estimates for men and
women 289
18.6 Stage in child rearing cycle by religious orientation:
differences in regression estimates for men and
women 290
18.7 Family focus and work by religious orientation:
differences in regression estimates for men and
women 291
18.8 Decomposing the gender gap in religious orientation 293
Figures
1.1 A range of methods and techniques of data collection 6
2.1 Theory construction and testing 12
2.2 The logic of the research process 21
3.1 A model for the increased divorce rate 31
3.2 Classic experimental design 35
3.3 An experimental design to measure the effect of
newspapers on party preference 36
3.4 Panel design 38
3.5 Quasi panel design 39
3.6 Retrospective panel design 39
3.7 Retrospective experimental design 40
3.8 Cross sectional design 41
3.9 One shot case study 42
4.1 Clarifying concepts: descending the ladder of
abstraction 52
5.1 A sampling frame 62
5.2 The effect of periodicity 65
5.3 Steps in multistage cluster sampling 68
5.4 A data matrix 76
6.1 Examples of rating scales 87
Tables and figures ix
6.2 Different answering formats for closed choice
questions 91
6.3 A matrix presentation of Likert style questions 91
6.4 An illustration of contingency questions 91
6.5 Simplifying response categories for telephone surveys 94
6.6 Two step method for reducing question complexity 95
6.7 Incorporating responses into the question 95
6.8 Use of typefaces to distinguish between parts of the
question 96
7.1 Initial covering letter for a mail survey 109
7.2 First follow up postcard 111
8.1 Flowchart for selecting analysis and statistical
techniques 125
9.1 Histogram of data in Table 9.1 130
9.2 Working out the median with an odd number of cases 133
9.3 Working out the median with an even number of cases 133
9.4 Attributes of the range 135
9.5 A distribution of random sample means 140
11.1 Scattergram of income by education 163
11.2 Scattergrams illustrating different types of relationships 164
11.3 An example of a regression line 166
11.4 Predicting from a regression line 169
11.5 Scattergrams displaying the relationship between
correlation and regression 174
12.1 A spurious zero order relationship 192
12.2 An indirect causal relationship with an intervening
variable 195
12.3 Graphical representation of an interaction effect
between gender and education on income 199
13.1 A diagrammatic representation of variables in Table 13.1 203
13.2 A path diagram 214
13.3 A path diagram with path co efficients 215
13.4 Calculating direct and indirect effects 216
14.1 Two methods of precoding questions 224
14.2 Example of allocating computer columns to questions
and coding 228
14.3 Example of a data file for questions in Figure 14.2 228
14.4 An example of a codebook 229
14.5 A murtivariable question 231
14.6 Another type of multivariable question 231
15.1 An illustration of scale scores 235
15.2 An inductive approach to scale construction 241
15.3 Relative classification of scale scores 242
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15.4 Different distributions for two variables 243
15.5 Problems of missing data for scaling 247
16.1 An illustration of the need to reverse code when
scaling 251
17.1 The distorting effect of outliers on regression 265
18.1 Theoretical model to test structural location theory 274
18.2 Calculating regression estimates for the belief scale 287
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