| Description |
xviii, 383 pages ; 24cm |
| Series |
Social development in the Third World |
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Social development in the Third World.
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| Contents |
General introduction / Martin Bulmer -- Research strategy / Martin Bulmer and Donald P. Warwick -- Population censuses and national sample surveys in deveioping countries / Benjamin Gil and E.N. Omaboe -- Sample surveys for social science in underdeveloped areas / J. Mayone Stycos -- The limitations of KAP surveys / Philip M. Hauser -- Situational variables / Margaret Peil -- Sampling / Martin Bulmer -- Some problems of sampling work in underdeveloped countries / Siobodan S. Zarkovich -- The development of the sample design of the Indian National Sample Survey during its first 25 rounds / M.N. Murthy and A.S. Roy -- Missing the point : sampling methods and types of error in Third World surveys in identifying poverty issues / Michael Ward -- Data collectlon / Martin Bulmer and Donald P. Warwick -- Questionnaires in Asia / Gabriele Wuelker -- Designing a questionnaire for Polynesian and Pakeha car assembly workers / Brian R. Flay, Patrick E. Bull and John Tamahori -- Assessing linguistic wquivalence in multilingual surveys / Shanto Iyengar -- Reliability of survey techniques in highland Peru / J. Oscar Alers -- Experience of retrospective demographic enquiries to determine vital rates / J.C.G. Blacker and W. Brass -- Interviewing and field organization / Martin Bulmer -- Survey materials collected in the developing countries : sampling, measurement and interviewing obstacles to intranational and international comparisons / Robert Edward Mitchell -- Fieldwork in rural areas / Allan F. Hershfield, Niels G. Rohling, Graham B. Kerr and Gerald Hursh-César -- The courtesy bias in South-East Asian surveys / Emily L. Jones -- Cultural complications in fertility interviewing / Harvey M. Choldin, A. Majeed Kahn and B. Hosne Ara -- On methodological integration in social research / Donald P. Warwick -- On the integration of research methods / William F. Whyte and Giorgio Alberti -- The politics and ethics of field research / Donald P. Warwick -- The experimenting society and radical social reform : the role of the social scientist in Chile's Unidad Popular experience / Ricardo B. Zuniga -- The KAP survey : dictates of mission versus demands of science / Donald P. Warwick -- Misapplied cross-cultural research : a case study of an ill-fated family planning research project / Charles D. Kleymeyer and William E. Bertrand |
| Summary |
"Deals with particular problems of carrying out social surveys and censuses in the Third World. Research design, sampling, data collection and the social context of research are discussed." |
| Analysis |
Social sciences Research |
| Notes |
Originally published: Chichester: Wiley, 1983 |
| Bibliography |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Methodology.
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Social sciences -- Research -- Developing countries.
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Social surveys -- Developing countries.
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| SUBJECT |
Developing countries http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85037341 -- Census.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001407
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| Genre/Form |
Census data.
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| Author |
Bulmer, Martin.
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Warwick, Donald P.
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| LC no. |
83006970 |
| ISBN |
1857281373 (paperback) |
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