Welcome to The Survey Methods Workbook Web Site
This website is designed to accompany the The Survey Methods Workbook.
Here you
will be find an array of material �
including chapters, guides and data files � designed to help you get the best
from the book and to enable you to take your understanding of survey
methods to a higher level. On this site you will find:
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Smoking
Survey files & documentation �
This
section contains all the material (data files, questionnaire and
codebook) you will need if you want to replicate the Smoking
Survey by doing your own survey, or if you want to work on our
data.
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Issues
in research design �
There are two appendices that can be
downloaded from this section of the website covering aspects of
research design. One considers longitudinal survey design
while the other looks at class schemas and how they are
coded
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Further
statistics and choosing statistical tests �
This
section deals in more detail with some statistical issues
discussed in Part III of the book including how to standardize
variables, what the binomial distribution is and guidance on
choosing the appropriate statistical tests.
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Further
techniques in data analysis � Here you will find a number
of additional appendices dealing with more advanced techniques
of data analysis than those covered in this book including:
Principal
Components (Factor) analysis,
Path models, Logistic
regression and Loglinear
modelling.
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Guide
to further reading �
For those of you who wish to read
about topics covered in the book in greater depth, in this
section of the web site you will find a guide to suggested
further reading.
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SPSS
updates, links and reader inputs �
Find out about
old & new versions of SPSS and
how it may affect your survey project. There are links to useful and related sites such as the ONS, ESRC
Data Archive, and organizations which can offer background
material on smoking. Also, data sets and supporting research
materials submitted by those who have replicated
the Smoking Survey can be accessed here.
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