Institute for Social Research (ISR)
The Institute for Social Research (ISR), originally established in 1949 at the University of Michigan as the Survey Research Center under the direction of Rensis Likert, is the nation's longest standing interdisciplinary research laboratory in the social sciences. Support from the sociology and psychology departments was an important factor in the decision to establish the ISR at the University of Michigan. The center was kept administratively separate from other schools and colleges, and its executive committee was made up of members from a variety of relevant disciplines; this separation was designed to promote its interdisciplinary nature. By the early 1950s the staff had grown from 12 to nearly 200. Tenure privileges were not granted to the senior staff members by the University of Michigan Regents ...
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Reader's Guide
Ethical Issues In Survey Research
Measurement - Interviewer
Measurement - Mode
Measurement - Questionnaire
Measurement - Respondent
Measurement - Miscellaneous
Nonresponse - Item-Level
Nonresponse - Outcome Codes And Rates
Nonresponse - Unit-Level
Operations - General
Operations - In-Person Surveys
Operations - Interviewer-Administered Surveys
Operations - Mall Surveys
Operations - Telephone Surveys
Political And Election Polling
Public Opinion
Sampling, Coverage, And Weighting
Survey Industry
Survey Statistics
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