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2. Survey (human research) - Wikipedia

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   Surveys may be conducted by phone, mail, via the internet, and also in person in public spaces. Surveys are used to gather or gain knowledge in fields such as social research and demography. Survey research is often used to assess thoughts, opinions and feelings. [1] Surveys can be specific and limited, or they can have more global, widespread ...

3. Survey methodology - Wikipedia

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   Survey methodology is "the study of survey methods". [1] As a field of applied statistics concentrating on human-research surveys, survey methodology studies the sampling of individual units from a population and associated techniques of survey data collection, such as questionnaire construction and methods for improving the number and accuracy of responses to surveys.

4. Research design - Wikipedia

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   A research design typically outlines the theories and models underlying a project; the research question(s) of a project; a strategy for gathering data and information; and a strategy for producing answers from the data. [1] A strong research design yields valid answers to research questions while weak designs yield unreliable, imprecise or ...

5. Questionnaire construction - Wikipedia

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   Surveys are limited to populations that are contactable by a mail service. Reliant on high levels of literacy; Allows survey participants to remain anonymous (e.g. using identical paper forms). Limited ability to build rapport with the respondent, or to answer questions about the purpose of the research. Telephone

6. Longitudinal study - Wikipedia

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   A longitudinal study (or longitudinal survey, or panel study) is a research design that involves repeated observations of the same variables (e.g., people) over long periods of time (i.e., uses longitudinal data). It is often a type of observational study, although it can also be structured as longitudinal randomized experiment. [1]

7. Design effect - Wikipedia

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   In survey research, the design effect is a number that shows how well a sample of people may represent a larger group of people for a specific measure of interest (such as the mean). This is important when the sample comes from a sampling method that is different than just picking people using a simple random sample .