ASH Scotland published a brilliant handbook on community-based research,
which I hope is now becoming quite well known. It is published as 'The
Evaluation Journey: An Evaluation Resource for Community Groups' by Linda
McKie, Joy Barlow and Paula Gaunt-Richardson. More detials can be found at
http://www.ashscotland.org.uk/inequalities/tobacco.html#eval
Robert Moore
--On 05 March 2004 08:54 +0000 Humphrey Southall
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> At 22:05 04/03/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>> 2) The market traders' request is, I suppose, a fairly typical one, of
>> the kind many of us get regularly. Faced with a problem of campaigning or
>> advocacy members of the public may feel it necessary to collect evidence
>> by 'doing a survey'. They really have no idea of the technical
>> complexity, time and cost involved in producing valid survey data -
>> hardly surprising considering how many school teachers are sending
>> pupils out to 'do a survey' for half-baked and ill-considered projects.
>> Anyone can do a survey - just ask the questions to which you want an
>> answer .... So we have quite a bit of educational work to do.
>
> The initial advice I sent the market traders was, to be honest, intended
> to make them realise the complexity of doing their own survey. I ended by
> suggesting they consider concentrating on looking for flaws in the
> council's planned survey.
>
> It was also designed to be reasonably generic. It occurred to me that we
> could usefully provide some generic advice on doing community-based
> surveys on our web site. It then occurred to me that somebody out there
> has already done this.
>
> .... so can anyone recommend a source of information about this on the
> web? I am sure there are various sets of survey design course notes on
> university web sites, but I think for this audience a rather different
> approach is appropriate.
>
> If someone can suggest a site, we could add a link to it from the Radstats
> site.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Humphrey
>
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