Asking Questions: The Definitive Guide to Questionnaire Design -- For Market Research, Political Polls, and Social and Health QuestionnairesSince it was first published more than twenty-five years ago, Asking Questions has become a classic guide for designing questionnaires3⁄4the most widely used method for collecting information about people?s attitudes and behavior. An essential tool for market researchers advertisers, pollsters, and social scientists, this thoroughly updated and definitive work combines time-proven techniques with the most current research, findings, and methods. The book presents a cognitive approach to questionnaire design and includes timely information on the Internet and electronic resources. Comprehensive and concise, Asking Questions can be used to design questionnaires for any subject area, whether administered by telephone, online, mail, in groups, or face-to-face. The book describes the design process from start to finish and is filled with illustrative examples from actual surveys. |
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Contents
Asking Nonthreatening Questions | |
Asking Threatening Questions About | |
More Accurate | |
Asking Questions About Attitudes | |
Toward Free Speech Abbreviated Questions | |
Asking and Recording OpenEnded | |
Informants | |
Asking Questions that Evaluate | |
Questionnaire | |
Asking Psychographic Questions | |
Asking Standard Demographic | |
Organizing and Designing | |
Questionnaires from Start to Finish | |
Asking Questions FAQs | |
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| Title | Asking Questions: The Definitive Guide to Questionnaire Design -- For Market Research, Political Polls, and Social and Health Questionnaires Research Methods for the Social Sciences |
| Authors | Norman M. Bradburn, Seymour Sudman, Brian Wansink |
| Edition | 2, revised |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons, 2015 |
| ISBN | 1119214769, 9781119214762 |
| Length | 448 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Marketing / Research Education / General |
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