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Public Opinion Polls and Survey Research A Selective Annotated Bibliography of U. S. Guides & Studies from the 1980s


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English | 2013 | ISBN: 0824057325, 1138984248 | EPUB | pages: 338 | 0.7 mb
First Published in 1990. The decade of the 1980s witnessed an increasing use of polls and surveys as well as an expanded research effort into public opinion polls and survey research from the economic, historical, legal, methodological, organizational, and political viewpoints. The purpose of this volume is to provide a resource for practitioners, researchers, students, librarians, and others seeking access to this interdisciplinary literature. Instructional guides, handbooks, reference works, textbooks, research studies, and evaluative and critical studies on public opinion polls and survey research published since 1980 are included in this bibliography.

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Improving the American Community Survey Proceedings of a Workshop


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English | ISBN: 0309490006 | 2019 | 210 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
Since its origin 23 years ago as a pilot test conducted in four U.S. counties, the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) has been the focus of continuous research, development, and refinement. The survey cleared critical milestones 14 years ago when it began full-scale operations, including comprehensive nationwide coverage, and 5 years later when the ACS replaced a long-form sample questionnaire in the 2010 census as a source of detailed demographic and socioeconomic information. Throughout that existence and continuing today, ACS research and testing has worked to improve the survey’s conduct in the face of challenges ranging from detailed and procedural to the broad and existential.

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100 Questions (and Answers) About Survey Research


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English | ISBN: 1506348823 | 2018 | 176 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 18 MB
Erin Ruel′s 100 Questions (and Answers) About Survey Research covers the entire survey research process, starting with developing research questions and ending with the analysis and write-up. It includes the traditional survey topics of design, sampling, question writing, and validity; includes a chapter on research ethics; covers the important topics of preparing, cleaning, and analyzing data; and ends with a section on how to write up survey results for a variety of purposes. Useful as a supplementary text in the classroom or as a reference guide for anyone starting a new survey project, the guidance is presented in a FAQ style to allow readers to jump around the book, so as to accommodate the nonlinear and iterative nature of research.

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Politics and Progress A Survey of the Problems of Today


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English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138641561, 1138641588 | EPUB | pages: 194 | 0.6 mb
In Politics and Progress, Muir aims to outline the political and social aims of liberalism and how it differs from conservatism and socialism as well as philosophising what a truly liberal society would look like. Originally published in 1923, this study details the political situation as it stood then, the past achievements of liberalism and what immediate problems society is facing that need to solved. This title will be of interest to students of politics.

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Britain and Canada Survey of a Changing Relationship


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English | 2013 | ISBN: 0714630527 | EPUB | pages: 191 | 0.8 mb
First Published in 1976. This volume, the fourth in the series Studies in Commonwealth Politics and History, looks at one of the oldest bilateral relationships between two Commonwealth countries. It is a group of essays in the general field of international relations and a fitting contribution to Studies in Commonwealth History and Politics. By bringing together studies of individual states, particular institutions, cross-national comparisons or relations between states, the series aims to make its contribution to our understanding of the contemporary world.

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World Economic and Social Survey 2008 Overcoming Economic Insecurity


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English | 2008 | pages: 235 | ISBN: 9211091578 | PDF | 16,0 mb
Offers a different approach with a strong ‘social contract’ and more integrated and pragmatic economic and social policy. This survey shows that economic insecurity arises from the exposure of individuals, communities and countries to adverse events, and from their inability to cope with and recover from the downside losses.

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Survey of Literature on Crevice Corrosion (1979-1998) – Prepared by Ijsseling, F.P. and the Working Party on Marine Corrosion


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2000 | 206 Pages | ISBN: 1861251254 | PDF | 10 MB
Crevice corrosion is a complex and technically interesting corrosion mechanism but its commercial significance should not be ignored. This survey, the most complete overview on crevice corrosion available today, covers many alloys which can suffer crevice attack but focuses mainly on stainless steels. The survey covers mechanisms, test methods and results, practical experience, protective measures and monitoring. Content:• Front Matter • Series Introduction • Preface • Foreword • Acknowledgements • Table of Contents • 1. Introduction 2. Theory and Modelling of Mechanisms 3. Test Methods 4. Mechanisms, Conditions, Applications and Experimental Results of Specific Alloy Types 5. Protection Against Crevice Corrosion • 6. Crevice Corrosion Monitoring • 7. Conclusions 8. References

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