Estudia

• Evaluate the convenience of using survey methods to solve a research problem
• Critically read articles and research reports where survey methods are applied
• Choose among alternative sampling frames and designs
• Estimate simple statistics and their sampling errors on moderately complex samples
• Compute confidence intervals and perform statistical tests based on the normal distribution
• Design, test and evaluate a questionnaire
• Choose among alternative data collection modes
• Manage data collection and non-response reduction
• Code, clean and weight the data

1. Introduction to survey methodology. Design stages and associated errors

2. Target population, sampling frame and coverage error

3. Sample design and sampling error

4. Use of sampling errors for building confidence intervals and hypothesis tests

5. Data collection methods

6. Non-response error and its reduction

7. Questionnaire design and evaluation

8. Data collection. Interviewer error

9. Preprocessing data

• Barnett, Vic (1991). Sample survey principles and methods. London [etc.]: Edward Arnold.
• Carmines, Edward G. (1979). Reability and validity assesment. Newbury Park [etc.]: Sage.
• Converse, Jean M., Presser, Stanley (1986). Survey questions : handcrafting the standardizedquestionnaire. Newbury Park [etc.]: Sage.
• Fowler, Floyd J. (1995). Improving survey questions : design and evaluation. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
• Fowler, Floyd J., Mangione, Thomas W. (1990). Standardized survey interviewing. Newbury Park [etc.]: Sage.
• Groves, Robert M. (cop. 1989). Survey errors and survey costs. New York [N.Y.] [etc.]: John Wiley.
• Groves, Robert M. (cop. 2004). Survey methodology. Hoboken: Wiley-Interscience.
• Groves, Robert M. (cop. 2002). Survey nonresponse. New York [etc.]: John Wiley & Sons.
• Houtkoop, Hanneke (2000). Interaction and the standardized survey interview : the living questionaire. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Kalton, Graham (1983). Introduction to survey sampling. Newbury Park [etc.]: Sage.
• Litosseliti, Lia (2003). Using focus groups in research. London [etc.]: Continuum.
• Little, Roderick J.A., Rubin, Donald B. (cop. 2002). Statistical analysis with missing data (2nd ed.). New York [etc.]: John Wiley & Sons.
• Moore, David S., McCabe, George P. (1993). Introduction to the practice of statistics (2nd ed). New York: Freeman and Company.
• Rubin, Herbert J., Rubin, Irene S. (cop. 1995). Qualitative interviewing : the art of hearing data. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage.
• Schuman, Howard, Presser, Stanley (cop. 1996). Questions and answers in attitude surveys : experiments onquestion form, wording, and context. Thousand Oaks (Calif.) [etc.]: Sage Publications.
• Schwarz, Norbert, Sudman, Seymour (1996). Answering questions : methodology for determining cognitive and communicative processes in survey research. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Sudman, Seymour, Bradburn, Norman M., Schwarz, Norbert (1996). Thinking about answers : the application of cognitive processes to survey methodology. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
• Thompson, Steven K. (cop. 1992). Sampling. New York [etc.]: Wiley.
• Wonnacott, Thomas H., Wonnacott, Ronald J. (1990). Introductory statistics for business and economics (4th ed.). New York [etc.]: John Wiley.
• Wright, Daniel B. (1997). Understanding statistics : an introduction for the social sciences. London [etc.]: Sage.

Activitats d'avaluació:

The final mark will be computed as:
Assignment 1: 20%
Assignment 2: 20%
Exam: 60%