Survey Research and Methodology

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Comment by John F Hall on March 5, 2012 at 17:35

I've just posted a new page to my site http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/survey-research-pantheon-the-great...  This page is dedicated to the many colleagues I have known and/or worked with over the years (and to whom I owe a great deal more than they ever appreciated) to practice and develop survey research as a discipline in its own right and, at times, to protect it from sustained and misguided attack.   There are currently two profiles Mark Abrams and Cathie Marsh, plus An interview with Mark Abrams a transcript of a fascinating 1984 interview detailing his early childhood growing up in an émigré Jewish family in North London, his student days at Latymer School and LSE, his early political education, his research career from the 1930s onwards and his work for the Labour Party . 

Comment by John F Hall on August 27, 2011 at 8:31

Judging by the dates of recent postings, people with problems won't get much help on this site.  Survey problems can be dealt with by the Amstat SRMS, many statistics queries from the SPSS listserver (both free to join).  I'm happy to offer help off-list (mail me on johnfhall@orange.fr) or you can have a look at the wealth of survey research materials and entry-level SPSS tutorials on my website

Comment by Helen Kelly on August 25, 2011 at 18:39

Hello, I am looking foward to joining this group. I am currently a Clinical Reserach Manager, in the Nursing Department of University Health Network, in Toronto, ON. My work focuses on teaching, mentoring and supporting nursing research ( primarily) and use survey research methodology in some of our projects.

Comment by Nick Stone on August 19, 2011 at 4:29

Hi Everybody

 

I have been a bit stuck for some time on what I suspect is an embarrassingly simple problem:

 

I need to measure differences between groups of survey items (self-reports)  that ask

a) were students encouraged to engage in various forms of learning (memorising, analysing, problem solving a la Blooms et al etc) and

b) whether they actually did engage in these different forms of learning

 

I'm thinking of treating it as a repeat measures (same group) t-test, even though there is no treatment or time interval as such, because the different items to be compared are within the same survey and completed at the same time.

 

I'd be very grateful if anyone could confirm or (politely) reject this as an acceptable approach and/or help understand why.

 

Thansk and cheers

 

Nick

Comment by raulyn fuentes on August 5, 2011 at 6:36

grtings every1. would be conducting a study on the impact of long working hrs to office staff, any idea on research design and data analysis? ty

 

Comment by Eli Lieber on March 25, 2011 at 17:24

Head's up for anyone doing online survey research. Here at Dedoose: http://www.dedoose.com we were approached by a marketing research group about how they might analyze the data they collected via SurveyMonkey in Dedoose. Our crack team built a tool to convert the, quite 'ugly,' SurveyMonkey output into a fully populated Dedoose project. They are thrilled and running off to carry out their work. Along the way, we also built tools to migrate NVivo project output, and any other qual and mixed methods data that can be represented in a spreadsheet, right into Dedoose too. We're hearing from many users frustrated by the restrictions and limitations of other tools and are working hard to help them, at least, explore the possibilities in the more open, collaborative, and flexible Dedoose environment...our blog says more for anyone interested: http://www.dedoose.com/blog.

Cheers,

Eli

Comment by Peter Lynn on December 5, 2010 at 13:26

New podcast! A 5-minute interview with me about the effects of interview length on data quality: http://audioboo.fm/boos/230557-peter-lynn-talks-about-recent-resear...

Comment by Peter Lynn on November 16, 2010 at 13:32

New working paper on the effect of questionnaire length on data quality in telephone interviews; may be of interest: http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/publications/working-papers/iser/2010-36

Comment by Jack Kneeshaw on November 8, 2010 at 12:19

The Survey Question Bank has just released a new question search tool at http://surveynet.ac.uk/sqb/qb/questions.asp which provides access to over 200,000 questions from more than 50 (mainly UK) survey series.

Please give it a try!

Comment by M. Monique McMillian-Robinson on July 6, 2010 at 19:23

Has anyone used Nancy Adler's subjective-social-status ladder? Was this subjective predictor of social status used in conjunction with objective measures of social status? Has anyone used this ladder outside the United States? I believe that Adler has used it in other countries, by simply translating the text. Has anyone found that this technique (simple translation without considering the cultural context) was insufficient for his/her study?

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