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Survey methodology

Index Survey methodology

A field of applied statistics of human research surveys, survey methodology studies the sampling of individual units from a population and associated techniques of survey data collection, such as questionnaire construction and methods for improving the number and accuracy of responses to surveys. [1]

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.

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Data Documentation Initiative

The Data Documentation Initiative (also known as DDI or DDI Metadata) is an international standard for describing surveys, questionnaires, statistical data files, and social sciences study-level information.

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Edith de Leeuw

Edith Desiree de Leeuw (born April 12, 1962) is a Dutch psychologist, statistician, research methodologist, and Professor in survey methodology and survey quality, at the University of Utrecht.

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Enterprise feedback management

Enterprise feedback management (EFM) is a system of processes and software that enables organizations to centrally manage deployment of surveys while dispersing authoring and analysis throughout an organization.

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Gideon J. Mellenbergh

Gideon Jan (Don) Mellenbergh (born 9 August 1938) is a Dutch psychologist, and Emeritus Professor of Psychological methods at the University of Amsterdam, known for his contribution in the field of psychometrics, and Social Research Methodology.

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Health professional

A health professional, health practitioner or healthcare provider (sometimes simply "provider") is an individual who provides preventive, curative, promotional or rehabilitative health care services in a systematic way to people, families or communities.

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Herman J. Adèr

Hermanus Johannes (Herman) Adèr (born 20 May 1940 at jvank.nl. Accessed October 8, 2013.) is a Dutch statistician/methodologist and consultant at the Vrije Universiteit, the VU University Medical Center and the University of Stavanger, known for work on Methodological Modelling and Social Research Methodology.

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Joop Hox

Josephus Johannes Cornelis Maria (Joop) Hox (born 1949) is a Dutch psychologist and Professor of Social Science Methodology at the Utrecht University, known for his work in the field of social research method such as survey research and multilevel modeling.

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Likert scale

A Likert scale (but more commonly pronounced) is a psychometric scale commonly involved in research that employs questionnaires.

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Market research

Market research (also in some contexts known as industrial research) is any organized effort to gather information about target markets or customers.

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Marketing

Marketing is the study and management of exchange relationships.

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McGraw-Hill Education

McGraw-Hill Education (MHE) is a learning science company and one of the "big three" educational publishers that provides customized educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.

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Mode effect

Mode effect is a broad term referring to a phenomenon where a particular survey administration mode causes different data to be collected.

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Official statistics

Official statistics are statistics published by government agencies or other public bodies such as international organizations as a public good.

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Opinion poll

An opinion poll, often simply referred to as a poll or a survey, is a human research survey of public opinion from a particular sample.

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Paid survey

A paid or incentivized survey is a type of statistical survey where the participants/members are rewarded through an incentive program, generally entry into a sweepstakes program or a small cash reward, for completing one or more surveys.

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Priming (psychology)

Priming is a technique whereby exposure to one stimulus influences a response to a subsequent stimulus, without conscious guidance or intention.

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Psychology

Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.

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Public opinion

Public opinion consists of the desires, wants, and thinking of the majority of the people; it is the collective opinion of the people of a society or state on an issue or problem.

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Quantitative marketing research

Quantitative marketing research is the application of quantitative research techniques to the field of marketing.

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Quantitative research

In natural sciences and social sciences, quantitative research is the systematic empirical investigation of observable phenomena via statistical, mathematical or computational techniques.

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Questionnaire construction

Questionnaire construction refers to the design of a questionnaire to gather statistically useful information about a given topic.

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Ratio estimator

The ratio estimator is a statistical parameter and is defined to be the ratio of means of two random variables.

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Respondent

A respondent is a person who is called upon to issue a response to a communication made by another.

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Sample (statistics)

In statistics and quantitative research methodology, a data sample is a set of data collected and/or selected from a statistical population by a defined procedure.

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Sampling (statistics)

In statistics, quality assurance, and survey methodology, sampling is the selection of a subset (a statistical sample) of individuals from within a statistical population to estimate characteristics of the whole population.

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Selection bias

Selection bias is the bias introduced by the selection of individuals, groups or data for analysis in such a way that proper randomization is not achieved, thereby ensuring that the sample obtained is not representative of the population intended to be analyzed.

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Social desirability bias

In social science research, social desirability bias is a type of response bias that is the tendency of survey respondents to answer questions in a manner that will be viewed favorably by others.

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Social research

Social research is a research conducted by social scientists following a systematic plan.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.

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Statistical inference

Statistical inference is the process of using data analysis to deduce properties of an underlying probability distribution.

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Statistical population

In statistics, a population is a set of similar items or events which is of interest for some question or experiment.

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Statistics

Statistics is a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data.

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Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada (Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the Government of Canada government agency commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture.

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Stratified sampling

In statistics, stratified sampling is a method of sampling from a population.

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Student BMJ

Student BMJ is a monthly, international medical journal for medical students and junior doctors.

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Survey (human research)

In research of human subjects, a survey is a list of questions aimed at extracting specific data from a particular group of people.

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Survey data collection

With the application of probability sampling in the 1930s, surveys became a standard tool for empirical research in social sciences, marketing, and official statistics.

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Survey response effects

Survey response effects are variations in survey responses that result from seemingly inconsequential aspects of survey design and administration.

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Survey sampling

In statistics, survey sampling describes the process of selecting a sample of elements from a target population to conduct a survey.

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The BMJ

The BMJ is a weekly peer-reviewed medical journal.

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Total survey error

In survey sampling, total survey error includes all forms of survey error including sampling variability, interviewer effects, frame errors, response bias, and non-response bias.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey_methodology

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