Exam 7: Survey Research

An omnibus survey should be guided by a well-defined inquiry.

Floaters are people who see themselves as neutral in their attitudes toward a particular issue.

Survey research usually has more ethical dilemmas than field research designs.

Research has shown that one third of the public will provide an opinion on a proposed law they know nothing about if they are not provided with a ______ response option.

Cell phone users are harder and more costly to contact in phone surveys.

Floaters are respondents who choose a substantive answer even when they do not know anything about a particular question.

Questions asking for information such as age, sex, race, ethnicity, income, or religion are known as ______ questions.

The most important consideration in comparing the advantages and disadvantages of the four survey designs is ______.

What is a split-ballot design? Give an example. What other organization guidelines are there?

An omnibus survey covers a range of topics to different social scientists.

The difficulty with group-administered surveys is that assembling a group ______.

Unless survey questions are clear and convey the intended meaning to respondents, they present a difficult task for researchers.

No questionnaire should be considered ready for use until it has ______.

If a survey could possibly have any harmful effects for the respondents, these should be ______.

What type of questions is this: "Do you disagree that juveniles should not be tried as adults if they commit murder?"

Likert-type responses generally ask respondents to indicate the extent to which they agree or disagree with statements.

Mailed, group, and phone surveys are completed by the respondents themselves.

Research has shown that questions that are written with more behavior-specific language, such as those used by the NISVS, result in much better recall by respondents.

To prevent any possibility of harm to subjects due to disclosure of information, it is critical to preserve subject confidentiality by ______.

Consider this question: On average, how much time do you spend on the job each week taking care of traffic violations? Less than 1 hour 1-3 hours 3-6 hours 6-10 hours 10 hours or more Which answer best describes the response categories?