KP290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Henry Mayhew, Logistic Regression, Rieti
9 Nov 2018
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Used to assess property for taxation purposes. To determine availability of young men for military service. 4 volume london labour and london poor. Baseed on conversations and observations of daily life of street people. From the 1890s to 1930s survey became the major method for social research. It became part of an importnat part of the social survey movement in canada, us, and britain. In the beginning the surveys were largely exploratory and descriptive. Used as means of informing the public of the problems related to industrialism and to provide info for democratic decision making. Several forces re-shaped the social survey into modern quantitative survey research: Applied statistically based sampling techniques and precise measurement. Created scales and indexes to gather quantitative data on attitudes, opinions and subjective aspects of social life. Ie) market research emerged as a eld to study consumer behaviour. Ie) journalists used surveys to measure public opinion.
