Survey Research
POS 4931 (Section 3791)
Fall, 2009

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Class Material

History of Survey Research

Charlemagne's Document
Charles Booth's Poverty Map of London
Gallup Interview

Gallup Obituary

Stouffer Surveys for the Army

Surveys as Research Method

Focus Group
Solomon Asch Line Experiment
Milgram Obedience Experiment

Data Sources

Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research (ICPSR)
American National Election Studies
(NES)
Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)

Sampling

Literary Digest Poll
Calculating Margin of Error
Table of Margin of Error
Normal Curve
Race and Democratic Candidate Preferences

Sample Implementation

Survey Sampling, Inc.


Question Types in Political Science

Over-interpreting Marginals

Table 1: Vote in 2000 by Economic Status

Table 2: Vote in 2000 by Economic Status
Table 3: Chi-Squared Test

Second Homework Assignment
Table 1 - Vote by Group Membership by Education with column frequencies
Table 2 - Vote by Group Membership by Education with column and row frequencies

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