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Centre for Applied Social Surveys

Short Course: Quantitative Survey Design and Data Collection

Supported by the ESRC

Pamela Campanelli and Roger Thomas, National Centre for Social 
Research

Fridays only 14 January - 11 February 2000, City University, London

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) and is also open to CASS students.

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 course content will include the quantitative survey process 
from project formulation, statistical design and sampling, through
instrument design and question formulation, to data processing.

The course will include tutored 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

Pamela Campanelli is an independent consultant.  Previously she 
was the Research Director at the Survey Methods Centre of 
National Centre for Social Research.  She specialises in research 
on survey instruments, data collection and interviewing techniques 
and regularly teaches in this area.

Roger Thomas is the Director of CASS.  He has had long 
experience of designing, running and managing surveys, first at the
Office for National Statistics and then at National Centre for Social
Research, where he participates in the programme of 
methodological research and consultancy and teaches survey 
methods.

Fee

£400 (includes course materials, morning and afternoon tea).  
Because of ESRC support, a number of bursaries are available 
which reduce the fee to £100 - 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 0207 477 8491.

For further details of the course and a registration form please
contact Mrs Hannah Williams, CASS Secretary on 023 8059 3048 
or email: [log in to unmask]  
A registration form can also be downloaded from the CASS 
webpage: http://www.scpr.ac.uk/cass/docs/fr_course.htm

Name:

Title:

Position:
(eg research student, academic staff, non-academic research staff 
etc)
Address for correspondence:
Email:
Telephone:
Please indicate the nature of any data which you would like to 
bring to the course:

Any special dietary requirements:
Please indicate if you wish to undertake assessed work in order to 
gain CATS points yes/no

Please indicate whether you would like to receive a list of 
accommodation in London  yes/no

Registration fee: 
Either standard fee £400
or
Reduced fee with ESRC bursary £100

Payment Method:

Please indicate either
Cheque enclosed payable to University of Southampton
I will pay in cash at the start of the course
Send invoice to
Payment by credit card:

Card number
Card type mastercard/visa/delta/switch
Expiry date
Address card is registered at (usually your home address)

Please note that payments made by mastercard or visa will be 
subject to an additional 1.5% fee and switch or delta cards incur a 
26p fee.  We are sorry that we cannot accept other cards, such as 
American Express.


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