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The authors hope that this book will be valuable to students training to become the next
generation of survey professionals, to survey researchers seeking guidance on current best …

Quality of life is the subject of much research. However it lacks an agreed theoretical basis.
In studies with older populations (ill) health has been used as a proxy measure for quality of …

Item nonresponse is a problem that frequently occurs in survey data. Although it can never
be prevented totally, it can be reduced considerably. This not only provides researchers with …

Latinos are the largest and fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, with increased
levels of political mobilization and influence. In the timely and thoroughgoing Latino Lives in …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 ANALYZING TALK the SOCIAL SCIENCES in Page 3 SAGE was
founded in 1965 by Sara Miller McCune to support the dissemination of usable knowledge by …

The tone of field research reports tends to be less objective and formal and more personal
than quantitative studies. Often, they are in the first person (ie, using the pronoun I) because …

Since the Paris Agreement in 2016, the goals of limiting climate change and moving toward
climate resilience stand. With a share of about 80% of global CO2 emissions, the energy …

In this chapter we present results from research designed to determine (1) whether
questionnaire pretesting results predict actual problems encountered in survey data …

Purpose The development of innovation capability (IC) is a central issue for both
practitioners and academicians. However, studies that investigate the dimension of IC in the …