Questions tagged [survey]
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.
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How to interpret survey data with demographic information?
I have little statistical experience, but am helping to run a community needs survey for my organization. Many of the questions have a yes/no or multiple choice answer format. For example, "Do ...
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Longitudinal sample with varying levels of non-response
I'm using answers to a specific question from the General Social Survey ("do you feel rushed"?) to compare statistics over multiple years.
The answers are "Always" "Sometimes&...
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What is the difference between a repeated cross-sectional survey design and a trend survey design?
Most of the references I have checked for repeated cross-sectional design and trend design (a type of longitudinal design) have said that they are one and the same. However, my professor says that ...
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How to model observation error of multiple entries on a single Likert-type item?
This is a hypothetical problem for me at the moment because (1) I have no such data and (2) often software provides a forced choice in these cases so I doubt it would be a problem if I conducted a ...
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How to construct confidence intervals for multiple choice survey responses where the measurement is the percentage of respondents?
Say I have $k$ categories of responses to a survey question from $n$ respondents. Assume n of each category is about 50, so we can't just work off asymptotic behavior necessarily.
How do I compute ...
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Is survey participation a cause of survey response?
I am rewatching Statistical Rethinking 2023 - 11 - Ordered Categories
because McElreath mentions some causal assumptions about survey responses, which I am interested in. He proposes a causal diagram ...
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Domain (subgroup) estimation in a stratified random sample
I want to ask a question about domain estimation (i.e., estimation of a parameter among subpopulations) in a stratified random sample.
It seems to me that in a stratified random sample, domain ...
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Statistical consequences of random sampling or longitudinal (i.e., repeated) sampling
I need to assess the effect of different treatments on a crop. I am using a completely randomized block design with 4 treatments and 4 replicates for each treatment. The variables I need to measure ...
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Use of area under the curve to compare treatments with count ordinal data over time
I am working on questionnaire data, looking into bimonthly responses where "improvement" and "worsening" for different health parameters is recorded as counts or frequencies for a ...
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Regression Method for a Survey Repeatedly Asking the Effects of Various Policies
I have survey results where I repeatedly asked the respondents about the effects of various policies.
The questions are as follows: "Let's assume you went back to the time when you were a high ...
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Confused on Cohen's Kappa - Exploring Rater Agreement Stats
I am interested in conducting a survey where I show raters a graph then ask for their thoughts. I will do this by providing statement for which the raters will select a value on a 5 point likert scale ...
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Best way to "parse" survey data for predictive value?
Straightforward question. Kind of like bucketing too.
Say you have a customer survey. The customer rates 1-10, or 1-5.
Say you want to use this to predict other behaviors. Reorder rate, refund rate, ...
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How to convert six point likert scale to four point likert scale
I would like to convert the mean score of a sample that was administered a questionnaire using a six point likert scale into a mean that is comparable to the same questionnaire using a four point ...
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Variance test with survey weights
When not working with surveys, you do a variance test with var.test(). What do you do when you want to account for complex survey design?
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Cluster sampling result in larger sample-to-sample variability
I'm reading STATA's Survey Data Reference Manual.
There is written that:
Cluster sampling typically results in larger sample-to-sample variability than sampling individuals directly.
Do you have an ...
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Should I run multiple interaction terms in a single model or in separate models?
I am new to statistical survey analysis and I'm using R. We have ran a pre-test with a very small sample (n=50). Our respondents were sorted into two treatment groups (T1 and T2 - basically treatment ...
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Altering demographics data that was responded incorrectly in a survey to be published in a journal [closed]
Cross-posted (kind of) from Academia Stack Exchange
We have a research paper that we want to get published in a journal. The paper is some simple statistical analysis of a survey we made. One of the ...
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Robust clustered errors using the survey package
I want to test the hypothesis that the coefficient for tobacco use by age is greater in women than men using the couples data (CR) from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), which has a complex ...
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Post stratification on a twophase object in the R survey package
I am working with NHANES survey data and I am trying to use a twophase survey design along with calibration to adjust for item non-response. For now, I am following an example from Lumley's Survey ...
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Can I make a proportional-to-size without replacement sample (PPS WOR) self weighted?
Let's say I have 100 schools and each has a different number of students. I want to estimate which % of students are in schools with electricity. Simulation and theory indicate it is more efficient to ...
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Help deciding on a statistical test to analyze results of a survey
I created a survey to measure student perspectives on different subjects in Higher Education. In the survey, the students are asked what subjects they have experience with, and they will only be asked ...
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How to manually calculate dAIC (survey design-based AIC) in R survey package
In preparation for fitting some more complicated distributions to survey-weighted data, I am trying to reproduce the $d\text{AIC}$ by hand for a simpler distribution (binomial in this case). I am ...
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Comparing my survey results to results from the literature
I’m running an initial study to decide whether a RCT is worth the time and resources. I have survey results from a treatment group, but unfortunately no control. Is there a reasonable way for me to ...
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How one would define dependent and independent variable in a survey? [duplicate]
Following are the definitions of independent variable and dependent variable I found on the internet:
<1> In statistical modelling, the dependent variable is studied to see if and how much it ...
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Inconsistent risk difference confidence interval and pvalue from Chi2-test
I am using the svyglm function in the survey package in R to compute a risk difference in proportions, 95% confidence interval and p-value. The outcome is binary ...
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In R, how can I run a Spearman rank correlation using survey data?
I know that using the survey package to account for complex survey data, I can use the svycor() function from the jtools library ...
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Would it be appropriate to inspect the mean inter-item correlation for an ordinal scale?
I'm analyzing the data from a questionnaire using ordinal scales with five response options (Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree).
I'm conducting my analysis using R, and have recoded the item ...
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A numerical example for combining post-stratification weights
I'm reading Using Weights in the Analysis of
Survey Data by David R. Johnson .
When we conduct a survey, people have different likelihood to respond. For example, suppose there are 50% males and 50% ...
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Analyzing pick, group & rank data
Participants completed a survey containing a pick, group and rank question. In detail, they were provided 16 items and asked to choose the ones that are relevant to them. Afterwards, they should rank ...
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How to use conditional survey questions (relevent only for subgroup of respondents) in a regression model
My question is about situations where I analyse data from a survey (eg. service satisfaction) where some of the questions are presented only to a specific sub-group of respondets (eg. only respondents ...
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How can I update a contingency table based on evidence?
I have a series of contingency tables that are my population benchmarks and survey data. Practically speaking, we know the population benchmarks are largely, but not entirely, accurate; there are some ...
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How to get price- and cross-price elasticities using household survey data
How does one estimate price-elasticity and cross-price elasticity using cross-sectional household survey data? Note that household survey data usually do not include price information. The literature ...
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Partial spearman correlation with complex survey data
I'm looking for info on how to compute both the partial spearman correlations and p-values for complex survey data.
There was a similar question for pearson correlations here: Partial correlation ...
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How to calculate F-statistic from a svyglm model in R
I am struggling to figure out the correct way to calculate the F-statistic of a regression model that uses complex survey data in R. I am using svyglm from the R survey package.
Would the below code ...
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Sample size for a survey with randomly assigned questions
This may seen like a dumb question for someone familiar on how to structure survey sample sizes, but I have a hard time finding the literature to back this up.
I have a survey that cover's 3 countries,...
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Constant sum suvey data!
I have conducted a survey where respondents had to allocate 100 points over 3 choices. There were 8 questions like this in total, where the choices were the same but the attributes on the choices were ...
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Right way to compute pairwise significance for a multiple choice survey question?
Say I ask people via survey, "Pick your one favorite option: A, B, C, or D." What is the proper way to compute pairwise significance between the answer options? Can we say whether there is a ...
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What model should I use for this weird dataset? (Survey Response attributes)
Above is a snippet of a dataset I am working with. It is a pull from a research tool presenting a set of many different and distinct attributes that have been sorted into numerous "categories&...
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Sample size calculation in two different population for administration of a questionnaire
I need some help calculating a sample size.
I have two groups of people to whom I need to fill out a questionnaire. Group A consists of 45,000 people and group B consists of 3,000 people.
How do I ...
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What are several examples of survey questions which have response options designed as mutually exclusive when they are not?
Statisticians and Data Analysts sometimes draw conclusions from surveys given to people.
Often times, there is a question, and there are 2 to 5 options to choose from if you are a survey respondent.
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How to determine sample size of rated objects for scale development
I am currently looking into developing a scale to measure a latent construct. I believe the latent construct is a property of conversation sequences. The scale I am developing has 4 a priori defined ...
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Estimating joint probabilities across two datasets
I would like to estimate the joint probability of two variables from two different surveys conditional on other variables that the two surveys have in common.
As an example I'm using data from this ...
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Z-Score to compare data with different time periods?
I have survey data for multiple countries, with respondents nested in countries. The survey was conducted in different waves, but not all countries participated in all waves. Thus, there are countries ...
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R: Selection probabilities with panel users (complex survey data)
I am calculating the weights for a survey, but I don't know what to do with my selection probabilities.
Let's say I want to ask people from some country what their opinion is about several subjects.
I ...
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Assessing the Impact of a Specific Treatment on Survey Results: A Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test Approach on Paired Samples
I have conducted a survey with several scale questions ranked 1-10 on a sample of n=18. I applied a specific treatment before and after the survey. However, I'm unsure about how to analyze the data ...
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help with choosing statistical test to compare responses to a questionnaire
I have a questionnaire made of 10 questions given to doctors from different specialties.
Each doctor evaluates 10 echocardiographic images and gives the image a score of 1-10 based on their own ...
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Vaccination acceptance by subregion and country of residence visualization name and instrument to build the similar one
I've found a pretty interesting visualization in the article "High monkeypox vaccine acceptance among male users of smartphone-based online gay-dating apps in Europe, 30 July to 12 August 2022&...
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Statistical implications of quota sampling
This source says the difference between quota sampling and stratified sampling is that the units in each group are drawn in a non-random manner. What are the statistical implications of the fact that ...
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How to examine the relationship between items on one questionnaire with scores on another?
How would I go about examining which items on one questionnaire are most associated with the overall score of another questionnaire and each sub scale of this second questionnaire?
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I'm having trouble understanding how to perform a very basic chi squared test
I conducted a survey: I asked 50 participants a question about a device they were using "is this device helpful".
30 said "Yes", 20 said "No".
How do I proceed with input ...
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