Survey Research Design
Then and Now
Mapping Out the Survey Research Process
Conceptualizing Your Survey Research Study
Survey Formats
Developing Survey Questions
Sampling Theory and Practice
Validity and Reliability and Trustworthiness
Administration of Surveys and Enhancing Response Rates
Preparing for Data Analysis
The Next Steps
Lesley Andres is a professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the sociology of higher education, issues of inequality and access, transitions across the life course, and mixed-methods survey research design. Her most recent books are Designing and Doing Survey Research (2012) and The Making of a Generation: Children of the 1970s in Adulthood (2010, co-authored with Johanna Wyn). She is the principal investigator of the Paths on Life’s Way project, the topic of this case study.
If the two main tasks of data analysis are, as Tukey said,
detective work and guidance counseling, then this book makes its
author, Lesley Andres, the Agatha Christie of survey research and a
sage mentor on statistical journeys toward truth, precision,
interpretation, and value. Beautifully written, and filled with
practical advice, Andres′ book should become required reading
Stephen T. Ziliak
Professor of Economics, Roosevelt University, and author of The
Cult of Statistical Significance There are many things to like
about Lesley Andres′ book on designing and doing survey research.
The language is accessible, the scope is impressive, it covers
classic and contemporary authors, it provides concrete examples to
beginning researchers, and it integrates survey research into a
wider research framework. But there is one thing I loved: it breaks
with the tradition of thinking of the survey as a quantitative
method and, by extension, qualitative and quantitative methods as
belonging to different paradigms. Lesley Andres convincingly argues
and shows by example that there is much more to survey research
than usually covered in conventional texts on this subject.
Research methods books in this vein are overdue and are part of a
new generation of applied research methods texts for the social and
related sciences
Manfred Max Bergman
Professor of Political Sociology and Methodology, University of
Basel
′The basics of survey research are all here, and the exercises in
each chapter will help focus the readers’ attention on the
essential points.′
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