Exam 9: Survey Research

A questionnaire item,distributed to a random sample of adults,reading "Are you not in support of nationalized health care",with a yes or no possible response,would violate which concept?

Working with a very limited budget,Professor Jenner undertook a national survey of 3,000 households.Jenner felt that the topic under investigation would produce a low response rate.What advice would you give Jenner?

Which of the following is NOT recommended for conducting online surveys?

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of interviews?

When follow-ups are planned with mail surveys:

Which of the following statements about contingency questions is FALSE? Contingency questions are designed to:

A key problem of secondary analysis is:

The questionnaire item,"Did you file federal and state income tax reports last year?" with a response set of yes,no,can't remember,other,is an example of a(n):

Probes are used more frequently in open-ended questions than in closed-ended ones.

Limit contingency questions to one page.

The phrasing used in closed-ended questions should allow respondents to attach their own meanings and interpretations to the question.

Compensating respondents for their participation is frowned upon for ethical reasons.

Babbie's recommendation is to place the demographic questions first in a printed questionnaire because they are the most inviting to a respondent.

Research assistants who are facilitating interview surveys should both be trained in the process of interviewing,as well as the purposes of the study.

Whenever the interview contains open-ended questions,it is important that the interviewer summarize and paraphrase what has been said so that a more meaningful interpretation can be given to the data.

Secondary analysis refers to the analysis of data collected earlier by another researcher for some purpose other than the topic of the current study.

The higher the response rate,the less likely the chance of a significant nonresponse bias.

A demonstrated lack of bias is more important than a high response rate.

Professor Smidlapp mailed a questionnaire to students on the issue of academic dishonesty.Smidlapp planned to use inferential statistics in the analyses and was concerned about the response rate.You tell Smidlapp that technically the use of inferential statistics assumes that:

Random-digit dialing helps to circumvent the problem of unlisted telephone numbers.