SHORT COURSE (Centre for Applied Social Surveys):
DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT OF QUANTITATIVE SOCIAL SURVEYS
Please reply by email if you would like to attend
Supported by the ESRC
Presented by
Pamela Campanelli and Roger Thomas
(Survey Methods Centre at SCPR)
Fridays only 16th January -13th February 1997
City University, Northampton Square, London EC1
This course is being held jointly by CASS and the Social Statistics
Research Unit at City University. It provides the Survey Methods
component of the City University MSc in Social Research Methods (and
Statistics), but has now been opened to CASS applicants from
elsewhere.
Course Objectives
. To enable participants to understand the integrated processes of
designing and conducting quantitative survey research projects.
. To give participants experience of grappling with problems in the
design of survey samples, the construction of data collection
instruments and the management of survey projects.
. To make participants aware of main sources of error in the survey
process and ways of detecting, controlling and minimising such error.
Course Content
. The quantitative survey process from project formulation,
statistical design and sampling, through instrument design and
question formulation, to data processing.
. Basic principles and practice of probability sample design for field
surveys.
. How to operationalise concepts, word questions and design, develop
and test survey instruments, taking account of intended uses of the
data collected.
. Principles of manual coding and editing of survey data, computer
editing and preparing data for analysis.
. Sources of error in survey data, ways of assessing them and ways of
minimising error.
. Planning and management of large scale surveys, piloting and
pretesting, relations with stakeholders in the sponsored survey
process, issues in survey ethics.
The course will include tutored small-group workshop sessions on
problems in survey and questionnaire design.
Target Audience
The course is aimed at researchers, research managers and research
students, including those who intend to design and execute
quantitative surveys, those who specify and commission such surveys
and those who analyse survey data and desire to understand the
processes through which such data are generated, the errors to which
they are prone and the meaning of survey "data quality".
Course Materials
Participants will receive copies of overhead transparencies used in
presentations, written notes and reading lists.
The Instructors
Pamella Campanelli is a Research Director at the Survey Methods Centre
at SCPR. She specialises in research on survey instruments, data
collection and interviewing techniques and regularly teaches on these
topics. Before joining SCPR she worked on large-scale surveys at the
University of Michigan, the US Bureau of the Census and the British
Household Panel Study.
Roger Thomas is the Director of CASS. He has had long experience of
designing, running and managing surveys, first at Social Survey
Division of the Office for National Statistics, where he was also
assistant director in charge of methodology and founder and editor of
the Survey Methods Bulletin, and then at SCPR's Survey Methods Centre,
where he directs a programme of methodological research and
consultancy and teaches survey methods.
Credit accumulation and transfer
CASS courses have been credit rated by the University of Southampton
and CASS students completing the five-day course are being offered the
option of undertaking assessment on the basis of which credits would
be awarded.
Fee
stlg400 (includes course materials, morning and afternoon tea). Because
of ESRC support, a number of bursaries are available which reduce the
fee to stlg125 - applicants must be full or part-time students, UK
academic staff or ESRC funded researchers. It will not be possible to
book for individual days of this course.
Location
The course will be held at City University, Northampton Square London
EC1V. Nearest Underground stations are the Angel and Farringdon. Room
information will be issued with course documents. Enquiries about
location and timing of sessions to: Alex Gayler 0171 477 8491.
Duration and Attendance
Students will be expected to attend at City University on five
successive Fridays from 16th January 1997 to 13th February 1997
inclusive, between the hours of 09.00 and 17.00.
Domestic arrangements
Coffee etc during course breaks and a light lunch will be provided for
CASS students at SCPR, adjacent to City University in Northampton
Square.
Accomodation
Please indicate on the registration form if you would like to be sent
details of local accomodation. Participants are left to book their
own accomodation according to individual needs.
Preparatory Reading
The following are recommended as background reading that will help
students to understand and get the most out of this course.
Stuart, A The Ideas of Sampling 1984 London Charles Griffin and Co.
Lessler, J.T. and Kalsbeek, W.D. Nonsampling Errors in Surveys 1992:
New York Wiley Fowler, F.J.,Jr Survey Research Methods (Revised
Edition) 1988 Sage
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