POL222H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Survey Data Collection, Statistical Inference, Dependent And Independent Variables
31 Oct 2018
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Survey: ask people to answer a questionnaire, use responses of the people as our data, not mandatory. Census: the entire population of interest is covered in the survey, conducted by governments periodically, mandatory, us census 2010. Includes basic demographic questions: collected data on the number of people in the household and the race of these people. Survey research: non-representative sample: a voluntary sample of convenience is used, not generalizable to the population. Survey research: data collection: mail, face to face interview, phone interview, online survey. Survey experiments: experiments conducted on a sample of people randomly selected from a large population (random sample, these randomly selected people will be placed into different groups with different questions, experimental treatments are different framing of a questions. Survey experiments: experiments conducted on a sample of people randomly selected from a large population (random sample)
