CENTRE FOR APPLIED SOCIAL SURVEYS (CASS)
Supported by ESRC
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SHORT COURSE: Design and Administration of Postal
and Self-completion surveys
Presented by Peter Lynn and Roger Thomas
Venue: University of Manchester
Dates: 13-14 May 1999
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The course objectives are:
a) to enable participants to develop a thorough and practical
understanding of the principles of good design of postal and
self-completion questionnaires.
b) to establish understanding and competence in how to plan,
administer and maximise quality and response in postal and other
self-completion surveys.
The course content will include: principles of questionnaire
design, questions to measure behaviour, attitudes and
values, special features of postal and self-completion surveys,
pretesting and piloting postal surveys, project management and
administration, and minimising nonresponse in postal surveys
The course will include workshop sessions so that participants can
work through practical exercises. To facilitate this, numbers will be
limited.
Target Audience
The course is aimed at researchers and postgraduate research students
who need to design and administer self-completion surveys, especially
those in the social, economic, educational and medical sciences.
Course Materials
Participants will receive written course notes, copies of overhead
transparencies and a reading list.
The Instructors
Peter Lynn is Director of the Survey Methods Centre of Social and
Community Planning Research (SCPR). He specialises in sampling
techniques for surveys and in postal survey methodology. He is well
known for his expertise and practical knowledge of survey sampling
issues and teaches many courses in this area.
Roger Thomas is the Director of CASS. He has had long experience of
designing, running and managing surveys and is currently based at
SCPR's Survey Methods Centre. Roger has also worked at the Office for
National Statistics, where he was Assistant Director in charge of
methodology and founder and editor of the Survey Methods Bulletin.
Credit Accumulation and Transfer
This course is worth 4 CATS points at postgraduate level. To qualify
for CATS points participants will need to undertake assessed work.
Please indicate on the registration form if you wish to do this.
Fee
The standard fee is 250 pounds sterling. Because of ESRC support, a
number of bursaries are available which reduce the fee to 65 pounds.
Applicants for bursaries must be full-time postgraduate research
students, UK academic staff or ESRC-funded researchers.
For a registration form and further details, please contact:
Kathy Hooper
Department of Social Statistics
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ
Fax: 01703 593846
Tel: 01703 594547
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Registration forms and further details may also be downloaded from the
following web address: http://www.alcd.soton.ac.uk/cass/courses/
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CASS is an ESRC Resource Centre hosted by SCPR and the
University of Southampton, with the University of Surrey
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