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2. Survey (human research) - Wikipedia

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   A good sample selection is key as it allows one to generalize the findings from the sample to the population, which is the whole purpose of survey research. In addition to this, it is important to ensure that survey questions are not biased such as using suggestive words. This prevents inaccurate results in a survey.

3. Survey sampling - Wikipedia

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   This type of sampling is common in non-probability market research surveys. Convenience Samples: The sample is composed of whatever persons can be most easily accessed to fill out the survey. In non-probability samples the relationship between the target population and the survey sample is immeasurable and potential bias is unknowable.

4. 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

5. 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.

6. Survey data collection - Wikipedia

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   With the application of probability sampling in the 1930s, surveys became a standard tool for empirical research in social sciences, marketing, and official statistics. [1] The methods involved in survey data collection are any of a number of ways in which data can be collected for a statistical survey. These are methods that are used to ...

7. Questionnaire - Wikipedia

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   A questionnaire is a research instrument that consists of a set of questions (or other types of prompts) for the purpose of gathering information from respondents through survey or statistical study. A research questionnaire is typically a mix of close-ended questions and open-ended questions.

8. Sampling (statistics) - Wikipedia

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   Is the question being asked by the research one that can adequately be answered using a convenience sample? In social science research, snowball sampling is a similar technique, where existing study subjects are used to recruit more subjects into the sample. Some variants of snowball sampling, such as respondent driven sampling, allow ...

9. Sampling frame - Wikipedia

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   Statistical theory tells us about the uncertainties in extrapolating from a sample to the frame. It should be expected that sample frames, will always contain some mistakes. [5] In some cases, this may lead to sampling bias. [1] Such bias should be minimized, and identified, although avoiding it completely in a real world is nearly impossible. [1]