CRIM 220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Statistical Inference, Drug Rehabilitation, Microanalysis
23 Nov 2016
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Introduction (asking people questions is the most common data collection method in social science) Survey: a data collection method and applies a standard of instrument in a systematic way to take measures from a larger number of units. Three basic ways of administrating questionnaires: self-administration, face-to-face interviews, telephone interviews. Topics appropriate to survey research (surveys have a wide variety of uses of basic and applied criminal justice research) Surveys can be used for descriptive, explanatory, exploratory, and applied research. Best suited for studies that have individual people as the units of analysis. One or more individual people act as respondent or informant: ex: researchers sometimes use victimization incidents, as units of analysis in examining data from crime surveys. We now consider some broad categories of research applications in which survey methods are especially appropriate. Victim surveys have become important resources of data about the volume of crime in the united states and in other countries.
