Survey Methodology (Wiley Series in Survey Methodology) 2nd Edition

Although the statistics in this book are a bit beyond my ken, the basic concepts of survey design including inference, measurement, survey error, target population, sampling frame, etcetera, are explained with crystal clear language and ample examples from actual research. In addition the introductory chapter provides background on the history of surveys and gives numerous case studies of various surveys and their purpose and how they were designed. Even though this book may not be complete in providing everything to be known about surveys, it is in fact a fabulous introduction to survey methods for those who are new to it.

The book was well received, in good condition

Best reference text on surveys. Covers sampling, non-response, survey type and question design. Best textbook on the market on this theme.

The book was a great additiont other books I have read. It provided me with information about survey methodology and would recommend this book to anyone interested in the subject matter.

This is a textbook on survey methodology, written by a group of methodologists who specialize in it. It is an advanced text, intended for use with doctoral level research.The content is quite thorough. The reader is brought through the various methods used to construct and test the viability of a survey and examples from real life surveys are used to convey the messages. There are some advanced statistics discussed in here and there is an assumption that you will be somewhat literate in advanced statistics when reading.The reason I gave this book 3 stars is because the Kindle version appears to have been formatted and edited by a chimpanzee. There are spaces in the middle of numerous words, especially the word "often" which really wrecks havoc when one is trying to comprehend the more advanced chapters. For the price, the publisher could have done a much better job. This is nothing against the authors who did well with the content. It's not their fault that the electronic version was rushed.

This is probably the most readable statistics book, I've read to date. I'm sure there were many rewrites in preparing this book because the authors have taken the time to figure out how to verbally explain mathematical subjects in detail. You have to respect their care in this regard. That doesn't mean you won't find any sigma notations in the math. It is real math. They just try to avoid compounding too many formulas together and they support them well with words.This doesn't cover the breadth of stat sampling techniques, you might find in the classics by Cochran, Kish, Thompson or Lohr but what it does cover, it takes the time to explain well. There are lot's of sidebar references to other authors and studies, which helps bring the subject to life.It's worth noting that this book is designed to serve the field of sociology, so there is a fair amount of info and discusion about field surveys, non-responses, ehtical issues in surveying, etc, which may not be of interest to the more general purpose reader. You should plan to skip around and unlike Cochran or Kish's sampling books, this book is fully conducive to a skip-around reading style. (If I hadn't skipped most of the stuff in the beginning, I would have found it a lot less interesting.)If you're breaking into statistical sampling, this would be a good place to start. It's not the only book I'd own, even in the beginning, but the care they give to explaining the core principles and bringing them to life with examples is a welcome support to the other books on your shelf. Even though they don't cover everything there are some areas where do go to some depth, and because of their clear style of writing, I'm still planning to read their description of "roh" and compare it with what I thought I learned from Cochran.

The book arrived in great shape and was on time. What I expected to received based on what was advertised online. Thanks a lot, great work.

This book has everything that you need in regards to survey methods.