TY - BOOK AU - Lavrakas,Paul J. TI - Encyclopedia of survey research methods SN - 9781412918084 (set : cloth) PY - 2008/// CY - Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - Sage Pub. KW - Social surveys KW - Research KW - Encyclopedias N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Electronic reproduction; Farmington Hills, Mi; Gale; Available via World Wide Web N2 - Covers all major facets of survey research methodology, from selecting the sample design and the sampling frame, designing and pretesting the questionnaire, data collection, and data coding, to the issues surrounding diminishing response rates, confidentiality, privacy, informed consent and other ethical issues, data weighting, and data analyses UR - http://find.galegroup.com.libraryumpsa.idm.oclc.org/openurl/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ctx_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&req_dat=info:sid/gale:ugnid:myump&res_id=info:sid/gale:GVRL&ctx_enc=info:ofi:enc:UTF-8&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft_id=info:sid/gale:bmcode:recid/2FKV ER -