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This much-anticipated Second Edition presents an informative and accessible account of survey research. It guides the reader through the main theoretical and practical aspects of the subject and illustrates the application of survey methods through examples. Thoroughly revised and updated, it presents: - concise and analytic coverage of multivariate analysis techniques - a brand new chapter giving theoretical and practical advice on the stages involved in constructing scales to measure attitude or personality - an up-to-date account of using materials on the internet - addition of concise intr

We examine the kinds of information that can be obtained from well-designed, standardized, population-based surveys and demonstrate that some things which, in the past, have been considered barriers to the use of surveys following disasters provide insights into postdisaster behavior and may be advantageous. In specific, we examine: the use of standardized surveys to compare community behavior across time, events, and locations; the extent to which surveys represent the population of interest in the aftermath of a disaster; the receptivity of respondents to being interviewed after a disaster; the ability to utilize telephones for interviews after a disaster; the extent to which the data collected in a survey are perishable and subject to memory decay; the use of surveys as quasi-experimental designs for obtaining information on "control groups"; the use of surveys as a source of baseline or denominator data for ascertaining what other, more specialized datasets represent; the maintenance of verbal data collected within the context of a survey for later postcoding and analysis; and the storage of surveys in archives for use in secondary analyses by other researchers. Overall, we conclude that well-designed, standardized, population-based surveys can provide an accurate picture of a community's behaviors and attitudes with regard to disasters as well as describe the impact of a disaster on a population.

This e-book presents six articles that employ survey-based methods in examining issues of importance in finance and financial decision-making. The topics range from dividend policy to derivatives usage to methodological issues in employing the survey method and the views of the profession regarding the survey method itself. In keeping with the international focus of the journal, the data used in these studies come from countries around the globe (the US, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Denmark, and Australia). The targets of these surveys include journal editors, chief financial officers and other

The rise of the Internet has radically altered survey research by changing how we think about sampling, driving down the cost of interviewing, and creating new ways of asking questions. This technology has also opened the way to a new style of cooperatively organized survey research. Projects such as the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) and the Cooperative Campaign Analysis Project (CCAP) involve collaborations of dozens of research teams that can collect very large samples and many smaller surveys tailored to the research questions of particular teams. This review examines the organization and key findings of these projects as well as their sampling methodology and its validity. Of particular importance, this article offers a direct comparison of the CCES with actual election results and the American National Election Studies (ANES), showing that the new survey approach yields highly accurate results that replicate the correlation structure of the ANES.

The rise of the Internet has radically altered survey research by changing how we think about sampling, driving down the cost of interviewing, and creating new ways of asking questions. This technology has also opened the way to a new style of cooperatively organized survey research. Projects such as the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) and the Cooperative Campaign Analysis Project (CCAP) involve collaborations of dozens of research teams that can collect very large samples and many smaller surveys tailored to the research questions of particular teams. This review examines the organization and key findings of these projects as well as their sampling methodology and its validity. Of particular importance, this article offers a direct comparison of the CCES with actual election results and the American National Election Studies (ANES), showing that the new survey approach yields highly accurate results that replicate the correlation structure of the ANES. Adapted from the source document.

Survey methodology in 1948 was practically unknown and by 1953 due to the influence of the Reactions Analysis Staff of the US High Commissioner in Germany has been growing to a point where a number of institutes such as Institute fuer Sozialforschung (Frankfurt/Main), Institute fuer Demoskopie (Allensbach/Bodensee) and Institute fur Sozialwissenschaften have been organized and doing research. It is suggested that better methodology could be used by German organizations, and that a greater effort be expended into micro-economic studies to better understand German economic revival; economic attitudes, toward saving, distribution of income, and income increase and/or decrease by types of families. L. P. Chall.