Dear John Barker et al.,
You could also look at Cathy Marsh's (1982) The Survey Method, and Roger
Sapsford's (1999) Survey Research.
Regards,
Jeff Evans
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Sent: 12 February 2007 20:25
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Subject: Re: What is the explanation for the difference/
John Barker asked:
> Now some members of Radstats are no doubt thoroughly familiar with the
evidence on the value of questionnaires. However, some may not be, and I
certainly am not.
>So could Professor Kornbrot kindly give me and others a reference or
two so
we can explore this issue?
And of course in any other members can supply evidence, that would be
useful.
In the absence of Prof Kornbrot clarifying what she had in mind - I
imagine this is an allusion to the view about the possible inconsistency
of attitude and behaviour that goes back to the classic (1934) work of
La Piere re attitudes and behaviour expressed by hoteliers to a Chinese
couple. Not being well versed in the literature on this a Google search
led me to the following JSTOR article reviewing the issue -
Attitudes and Behavior
Howard Schuman; Michael P. Johnson
Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 2. (1976), pp. 161-207.
Stable URL:
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=03600572%281976%292%3C161%3AAAB%3E2.0.C
O%3B2-K
This might be of interest?
John
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Sent: 12 February 2007 09:28
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Subject: What is the explanation for the difference/
I do not seem to have received any response to my e-mail of 28th
January (copied below). I would be very grateful for some response now.
John Barker
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Dear all,
This thread started when on 20th December I drew attention to an
apparent discrepancy in evidence about Indian fertility in the UK.
However, a subsequent posting has shown that there is another apparent
disrepancy, this time between two quite clear claims, one specific, one
more general. In the paper by Penn and Lambert to which I originally
referred, we
read:
"It is generally accepted that attitudes towards ideal family size
closely correlate with actual patterns of fertility". But Professor
Kornbrot, in her posting of 30th December stated: "Psychological
research has consistently show that the correlation between attitudes
expressed in questionniares is, at best, very loosely correlated with
behaviour.
Now Penn and Lambert give references for their claim, although I find
that one reference has the wrong provenance. But Professor Kornbrot does
not give references.
Now some members of Radstats are no doubt thoroughly familiar with the
evidence on the value of questionnaires. However, some may not be, and I
certainly am not.
So could Professor Kornbrot kindly give me and others a reference or two
so we can explore this issue? And of course in any other members can
supply evidence, that would be useful.
Yours sincerely,
John Barker
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