SCS 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Laziness, Nonprobability Sampling, Yes Minister

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: SCS 2150
• Professor: Ivan Katchanovski

Document Summary

Denmark (prosperous, democracy, social programs) so not just economic factors. Standardized/structured interviews and questionnaires: used in survey research. Produce standardization in the asking of questions and the recording of answers. The same questions are asked in the same order (translated if needed: standardized/structured interviews: Questionnaires are essentially structured interviews without an interviewer. They involved filling out a form which is then returned to the researcher, often by mail, e- mail or online: contain a list of survey questions and answers, used to administer surveys, helpful in analyzing survey data. The question should be asked exactly as stated (small changes to wording can make a big difference) Similarly, the answers should be recorded as exactly as possible. Questions should be asked in the order they are given on the interview schedule. Close-ended questions: list of answers given and then one of them is selected by a respondents. Open-ended questions: respondents allowed to give any response.