A nuts-and-bolts guide to conducting your own professional-qualitysurveys without paying professional fees. How can you gauge publicsupport for a cause or test the market for a product or service?What are the best methods for validating opinions for use in apaper or dissertation? A well-documented survey is the answer. Butwhat if you don't have thousands of dollars to commission one? Noproblem. How to Conduct Your Own Survey gives you everything youneed to do it yourself! Without any prior training, you can learnexpert techniques for conducting accurate, low-cost surveys. Instep-by-step, down-to-earth language, Priscilla Salant and Don A.Dillman give you the tools you need to: * Determine which type of survey is best for you * Estimate the cost of your survey * Conduct mail, telephone, and face-to-face surveys * Draw accurate samples * Write effective questionnaires * Compile and report results * Avoid common survey errors * Find reliable outside assistance * And much more

How to Conduct Your Own Survey

Salant, Priscilla

Dillman, Don A.

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Local government guide to the internet: Online resources for communities

TVA Rural Studies, University of Kentucky

A Community Researcher's Guide to Rural Data is a comprehensive manual intended for experienced researchers as well as for those less familiar with statistical data. It identifies a wealth of current data sources and illustrates how they can be used to analyze social and economic change. Individual chapters describe data on local population and community resources, economics, and government.
An updated version of this book entitled Guide to Rural Data was published by Island Press in 1995.

A Community Researcher's Guide to Rural Data

Business & Money

Economics

Island Press

First published in 1990 as A Community Researcher's Guide to Rural Data this completely revised edition explains how to find and obtain the most current information on rural America both in published form and electronically.The authors identify a wealth of data sources and illustrate how those data can be used to analyze social and economic change. Chapters describe data on local population and community resources, economics, and government. Appendices include details about federal statistics programs along with addresses and phone numbers for state and federal offices that house or collect data.Guide to Rural Data is an essential resource for anyone concerned with evaluating economic and demographic change in rural America.

Guide to Rural Data: Revised Edition

Waller, Anita J.

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