Cardiff University, School of Social Sciences, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff

This course focusedĀ on the design and implementation of quantitative social surveys (excluding the design of questionnaires which is covered in a separate course). Topics included project management, quality, ethical and reporting issues; guidelines for understanding interviewer vs. self-completion implementation concerns; ways to minimise nonresponse before it happens; various issues in survey sampling and an introduction to weighting; principles of data coding and processing, and an introduction to the Survey Question Bank.