Research Catalog

Title

Sampling for social research surveys, 1947-1980 / Irene Hess.

Author

Hess, Irene.

Publication

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 1985.

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Details

Description

x, 294 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Abstract: This monograph recounts experiences in survey sampling at the Survey Research Center (SRC) from its origin in the late 1940s to the early 1980s. The objectives of this reference work are: to detail sampling practices for continuing personal interview surveys in a national sample of counties; to provide sample design information more extensive than summary statements accompanying data files; to report sampling procedures used to satisfy some special research requirements; and to present a variety of sample designs and the methods used to implement them. Topics include: the development of the multipurpose sample of counties employed for national surveys conducted during the 1970s and early 1980s; sampling procedures within selected counties to obtain samples of housing units and household members; descriptions of household samples; and the use of telephone interviewing for data collection. A glossary containing definitions of technical terms appearing in the text is included.

Subject

• University of Michigan. Survey Research Center
• Social sciences > Research
• Social surveys
• Sampling (Statistics)
• Sampling [Statistics]
• Stichprobe
• Geschichte (1947-1980)
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 283-294.

ISBN

• 0879442999
• 9780879442996

LCCN

84026193

OCLC

• ocm11497138
• 11497138
• SCSB-8965277

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library