Designing and Doing Survey Research
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Taking a mixed method approach throughout, the book provides step-by-step guidance on:
• Designing your research
• Ethical issues
• Developing your survey questions
• Sampling
• Budgeting, scheduling and managing your time
• Administering your survey
• Preparing for data analysis
With a focus on the impact of new technologies, this book provides a cutting-edge look at how survey research is conducted today as well as the challenges survey researchers face. Packed full of international examples from various social science disciplines, the book is ideal for students and researchers new to survey research.
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Lesley Andres is a professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the sociology of higher education, issues of inequality and access, transitions across the life course, and mixed-methods survey research design. Her most recent books are Designing and Doing Survey Research (2012) and The Making of a Generation: Children of the 1970s in Adulthood (2010, co-authored with Johanna Wyn). She is the principal investigator of the Paths on Life’s Way project, the topic of this case study.
