Summary
Contents
What is qualitative secondary analysis? How can it be most effectively applied in social research? This timely and accomplished book offers readers a well informed, reliable guide to all aspects of qualitative secondary analysis. The book: Defines secondary analysis. Distinguishes between quantitative and qualitative secondary analysis. Maps the main types of qualitative secondary analysis. Covers the key ethical and legal issues. Offers a practical guide to effective research. Sets the agenda for future developments in the subject. Written by an experienced researcher and teacher with a background in sociology, the book is a comprehensive and invaluable introduction to this growing field of social research.
Sampling: Questions of Size
Sampling: Questions of Size
Sampling is the process of selecting a sub-set, of people or social phenomena to be studied, from the larger ‘universe’ to which they belong, determined by a balance between resources available; anticipated techniques of analysis; how much variation there is believed to be in the universe; and the level of precision needed in estimates to be made about the universe on the basis of data from the sample.
Section Outline: How big a sample? Non-probability samples. Samples from ‘universes’. Trading off resources, planned analysis techniques, and variability of universe's components. Example: student elections. Stratified samples. Cluster samples. Estimates: correctness not the same as precision.
The most frequently asked question in sampling for Social Surveys is ‘How big a sample do we need?’ The ...