Bethlehem Polling Public Opinion

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4987-6975-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 298 Seiten

This book provides readers with a deeper understanding of a range of practical and theoretical aspects of opinion polls. There are good and bad polls. The book describes how to separate the chaff from the wheat. It should help non-survey experts, such as journalists, decision makers, political scientists, and politicians, determine the quality of a poll.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bethlehem, Jelke

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Populäre Darstellungen der Mathematik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Public Opinion. Some History. Setting up a Poll. Asking Questions. Selecting a Sample. Collecting Data. Checking and Correcting Data. Computing Estimates. The Nonresponse Problem. Online Polls. Analyzing the Data. Publishing the results. A Checklist for Polls. References. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Jelke Bethlehem is a professor, by special appointment, in survey methodology at Leiden University, in particular, web survey methodology. For many years, he was also senior methodological advisor at Statistics Netherlands in The Hague. He is in involved in research projects in the area of survey methodology. Specialty research topics are nonresponse and web surveys. Dr. Bethlehem has participated in a multitude of European research projects on these topics.