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.
Questionnaires
Questionnaires
Questionnaires are the printed sets of questions to be answered by respondents, either through face-to-face interviews or self-completion, as a tested, structured, clearly presented and systematic means of collecting data (mainly in the quantitative methods tradition).
Section Outline: Question format: simple, clear, understandable wording. Pitfalls: too general; double-barrelled questions; threatening; too complicated. Open and closed questions. Showcards. Question sequences. Filters. Self-completion.
In survey research – probably the archetypal example of Quantitative Methods – everyone in the sample is systematically asked the same questions, in the same order in each interview and by each interviewer. This is in contrast to in-depth Interviewing (see also Auto/biography and Life Histories; Unobtrusive Methods). A list of topics to be included is converted into easily understandable and answerable questions, written down on ...
