If they do not know how to be doing it, they ought not to be doing it, and should get some properly
qualified academic to do it.
I shall give them what information I have as I have been involved in designing this sort of survey
before, I doubt if they will take any notice of me. There you go the eternal pessimist and cynic
again. At the end of the day it is market research and we all know how client biased that tends to
be.
Larry
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark
> Priestley
> Sent: 12 June 2008 09:46
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: disability survey sampling design?
>
> Hi
>
> As part of research commissioned by the BBC/Channel 4 (into
> disabled people's representation and access to mass media) a
> survey of disabled people in private households is being
> conducted in the UK. The consultants on the project are very
> interested to hear about sample/survey designs used in other
> disability surveys in order to inform their work.
>
> Any comments on the following proposal would be warmly welcomed.
> Specific details of sampling designs used in other studies
> would be particularly welcome.
>
> ________________________________________
> From: James Morris [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 06 June 2008 11:37
> To: Mark Priestley
> Subject: Quant research with DDA disabled sample
>
> <SNIP>
>
> "We are looking at a sample size of around 500. The current
> methodology is using face-to-face door-to-door interviews.
> Interviewers will be given a set of addresses drawn randomly
> and ask to speak to one person per household. We'll use the
> standard DDA question to filter participants so our sample is
> just people who count as 'disabled' under the DDA.
>
> What we could really do with your advice on is:
>
> 1) Overall - does this feel sensible to you
>
> 2) How to select sampling points. The plan is to select a number
> of sample points than use a random walk from those spots. Do
> you have any advice on the number of sample points to select?
> Or how to select them?
>
> 3) The impact of filtering at the door - are we likely
> to fail to
> get more severely disabled people?
>
> 4) Setting quotas - I think we will probably want to
> set quotas in
> terms of age, class, and perhaps severity. This will allow us
> to weight the data to the national profile. Does that make
> sense? And do you have any advice on setting those quotas?"
>
>
> <SNIP>
>
>
> Best wishes
>
> Mark
>
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