What Is a Survey?
- Distinguishing feature:
o Form of data
o Method of analysis
- Form of data
o Rectangular set of data
o Variable by case grid
o Technique to generate data can vary
o Unit of analysis need not be people
- Method of Analysis
o Causes of phenomena
o Description
o Locate causes by comparing cases
o Compare with other methods
§ Case study
§ Experimental method
· Creates intervention
· Survey studies naturally occurring variation
- Quantitative and Qualitative Research
o Structured data / unstructured data
§ Systematic data
o Analyzing data à logic of analysis
§ Logic of survey analysis
· Variation in one variable matched with variations in other variables
· Co variation
· Not an inherently statistical concept
· Causal analysis
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