Refers to an instrument used to collect a sample from a population. Surveying often refers to sampling of human populations and is primarily done by administering questionnaires or interviewing individuals. Sampling individuals for surveys in stratified populations may require more complex sampling ...
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Can I combine several ordinal questions to create an index and/or composite measure?
I am using a survey that contains several questions about various dimensions of performance for policy research institutes. Here, performance in the policy arena is unpacked into things like:
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Choice Modeling and MaxDiff
I am new to the market research industry and have been exposed to a procedure called MaxDiff. I have seen this also called Best-Worst scaling. I am looking for good literature overview for this method ...
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How to interpret this correspondence analysis plot with individuals as nominal variable?
Background: Although correspondence analysis is used mainly for visualizing similarities of categories of two or more nominal variables, I tried following: 39 students (from the same survey as in this ...
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How to analyze Likert scale data
I have a Likert scale questionnaire with 9 attributes of a system (such as stability, security, cost, etc...) For each of the attributes, the respondents can answer how much the attribute is important ...
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How to correctly interpret group differences with this PCA plot?
Background: I asked hundreds of participants in my survey how much they are interested in selected areas (by five point Likert scales with 1 indicating "not interested" and 5 indicating "interested").
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Complex Samples in Bayesian Paradigm
Complex samples in finite population theory has some classical references (in the frequentist approach), such as Särndal et al (1991) and Tillé (2006).
I'd like to know some good references that deal ...
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Are there any studies/papers that show futility/fruitfulness of survey data over observed data
I personally believe that survey data does not always reflect the true nature of the metrics it tries to capture. I was wondering whether there are any studies that objectively prove this (or the ...
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How to analyse a risk assessment questionnaire where each risk is rated for both probability and impact?
I would like your opinion on how to analyze a questionnaire on risk assessment in construction projects. For each question, concerning a specific risk for the project, there are two answers: An ...
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Utility function for survey questions
What exactly is a utility function of a survey question? For example, suppose a question has $7$ possible answer options. We assign each answer choice a number between $0$ and $100$. What information ...
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Survey, does this make sense?
I'm trying to learn a bit of statistics, and I thought I'd ask you guys about conducting surveys.
Let's say I conduct a survey like the following ...
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Filtering random guessers from daily surveys
Assume we're polling or surveying people about their predictions regarding some future event. This survey is done every day, and the event they are asked to predict is the same every time. For ...
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Evaluate Multiple Choice Survey
I am currently working on my thesis, and have very little background in statistics and statistical analysis so any help would be greatly appreciated.
My research study focuses on a 10-question, ...
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Marketing research survey results
I added a question about marketing research survey result. There are two questions and two results related to this survey. Can you help me answer these questions about this data sheet.
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How to score the options in a questionnaire and develop a scoring range in a risk profiler questionnaire?
I have developed a risk profiler questionnaire but don't know how to score the options and make a scoring range. Once the range is developed, I could categorize the client as conservative, moderate ...
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Reporting percentages in preference type survey questions
I came a cross some survey results that show user preferences, asked in the form of the most and least preferred choices. The result reported was something like "x % of people chose option A as their ...
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Are there guidelines for when to remove survey participants who blindly filled in the bubbles?
I just did a survey and I'm pretty sure some people just filled in the bubbles on the survey without reading the questions. A pretty obvious indicator are responses to items that are negatively coded ...
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Best method to analyse survey results with multiple choice of answers
I have designed a survey with multiple choice answers. Each question contains same set of answers
Strongly agree
Agree
Disagree
Strongly disagree
Don't know
There are 25 questions and ...
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Categorical Binary Variable
I'm attempting to draw an inference of accuracy be it by confidence interval or response rate, except typical methods don't really suite my problem for the reason that the entire population was ...
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What current methods for statistical disclosure limitation are best trade-offs between data privacy and data utility?
In many situations raw microdata is not released by institutions due to privacy preserving. Many techniques are used for protecting sensitive values in data. But many of them can destroy multivariate ...
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Best test to assess statistical difference between two groups on a set of 5-point questionnaire items
I have a set of data which contains answers to a questionnaire (questions about satisfaction rated 1 to 5) and some demographic information (sex, age). I can divide the data in two groups and I want ...
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use of weights in svyglm vs glm
I would like to know how the treatment of weights differs between svyglm and glm
I am using the ...
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Analysis of randomized experiments
I have data from an experiment in which participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups and asked a series of opinion questions. One group, the control, was not presented with any additional ...
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Measuring overall response in a likert scale
I have a Likert scale in my survey ranging from strongly disagree / disagree / neither agree or disagree / agree / strongly agree. The aim of the study is to scale attitudes of task shifting from ...
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Technical term for a survey scale with opposite values at both ends?
I am having trouble finding the technical term for a scale used in survey research with opposite values at both ends of the scale. For instance, how can I refer to a scale of the following kind:
In ...
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Avoiding the Generalized Variance Formula for the NYC Housing and Vacancy Survey
I am attempting to devise a replication-based survey design that closely replicates a taylor-series design used by the US Government publication - where I do not have access to all of the ...
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Analysis to use with categorical response and categorical predictor variables
I have data from a randomized survey experiment in which each respondent was assigned to one of 4 groups, one of which can be considered a "control" or "no treatment" group. The key question asked in ...
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EFA clearly supports one-factor, measure is internally consistent, but CFA has poor fit?
I am exploring the psychometric properties of a 10-item self-report measure. I have about 400 cases in two independent samples. The items are completed on 4-point Likert scales. An EFA clearly ...
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Dealing with 'Don't Know' answers for a categorical outcome variable
I have a survey data with categorical outcome variable (yes, no, don't know) which reflects the acceptance of some situation by respondents. My concern is how to deal with Don't know answers, I really ...
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Price elasticity of specialized goods [closed]
What type of "declared-intention" survey would be adequate to measure the price elasticity (among the general public) of a product, such as a car battery, for which the following applies:
The only ...
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Statistical analysis of sequential questions in SPSS
I am analysing a questionnaire using SPSS, but I do not know how to analyse ranking questions or questions where response from one question is used to answer the next.
Can anyone help please?
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Can GEE handle small unaccounted clusters in data?
A survey is being administered in a resource intensive setting. A 2-phase study design will be implemented using cases and controls identified by a certain behavior (say, smoking) and they will be ...
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Ordinal survey data or not?
We wish do some statistical analysis on the relation between being an entrepreneur and drinking and are wondering if we can consider the data derived from a survey as ordinal in nature. And if we can ...
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Highly skewed survey data
I've just received some survey data and I found that the results are highly positively skewed. Most of the questions were answered on a five-point Likert scale, and the mean values of many questions ...
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How to treat sentences including “and so on” when analyzing open-ended responses? [closed]
I'm analyzing responses from open-ended questions, by item (specifically, sections of an entire answer).
I were asked to mention features or actions about a subject. I have sections that I reach to ...
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When to use a chi-squared test?
This is a very basic question however I do not have a statistical background and I am currently analysing some data for my dissertation.
I have constructed a survey about healthy lifestyles & ...
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is the Mann Whitney U test appropriate for my data?
I have data from a survey I designed for my dissertation on obesity and public health. The questions are mostly qualitative in nature.
For example,
How healthy do you consider your lifestyle to be? ...
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Alternatives to svychisq() in survey
A time ago I posted this question. Now I have a 'little' continuation: I'm having some difficult with a few questions, getting this error message:
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How to pick a sample from a multiple group, stratified population for repeat surveys
I provide support to about 500 internal customers on a computer system. I want to start measuring my 'customers' satisfaction on some kind of routine schedule. However my customer base can be ...
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How to store (and analyse) multi-answer multi-choice questionnaire data
I have just carried out a questionnaire which has a number of questions which are multi-answer and multi-choice. That is, the respondent can tick as many of the options as apply to them - so they may ...
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Analysis of complex sample
The company where I work did a survey with a complex sample. Originally, the sample was a 2-step stratified, but due to some problems, we lost one of them (so, let's consider that the sample is ...
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How to analyse several types of geo data together?
I have some data gathered from a survey conducted within my city. All responses include an approximate geo location of where they were gathered (accurate to probably a couple of hundred yards which is ...
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Probability model for repeated survey data
I'd like to find a suitable probability model but I'm not sure if the one I've thought of makes sense. The intention is to apply a Bayesian analysis to survey data which has been sampled twice. The ...
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Comparing two likert scale answers
we have performed a study asking participants to describe a current method they use to perform various interaction scenarios on computers and a proposed method they would instead like to use. We have ...
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Steps for Regression when subscales (based on survey responses)are present in IND and DEP variable
I am looking to run regression against 5 Independant variables (each comprised of 4-6 subscale survey items) and a Dependant Variable (comprised of 3 subscale survey questions in Likert Fashion). I ...
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A statistic to describe a correlation with progression
I want to see if the proportion of 'I don't know' responses correlates with the progression through the survey. Generally we expect this proportion to increase ...
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TelephoneSurvey, when to call?
I conduce a prestudy to understand when is the best time to call bakers for a telephone survey.
Here is my preliminatory study design:
I have a table of all 15000 baker firms in a country
I ...
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How does one interpret a single margin of error value for a survey consisting of many questions
I've inherited a survey from an old employee that consists of 27 questions. We have on the order of 500 respondents but not all of them answered every question as some questions are of the type 'if ...
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quantile regression analysis
What is quantile regression? How can I use quantile regression to analyse technical efficiency in rubber farmers? I also want to use the production frontier.
The response (y) variable is ...
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Is a chisquare on a (nearly) complete population data necessary?
I have data from a survey that was (attempted to to be) administered to all children of particular grades in a certain state. I am getting it after a cleaning step by the survey designers that removed ...
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Repeated categorical measures in a survey
Last year, we did a survey that asked people a question about their belief in climate change. The respondents could select 1 from a list of 5 categorical responses.
In the fall, there was an event ...
