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Bourque, Linda Anne Brookover was born on August 25, 1941 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Daughter of Wilbur Bone and Edna Mae (Eberhart) Brookover.
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This volume highlights the theory that decisions made during the design of a data collection instrument influence the kind of data and the format of the data that are available for analysis. Opening with a discussion on the selection of the data collection technique(s) and how this impacts on data processing and the data for later analysis, the book covers key issues such as: should you create your own instrument for a questionnaire? how do you test a questionnaire? what are the characteristics of good data processing? how to deal with missing data? how to scale an evaluation and create subfiles for analysis? In addition, each major section concludes with examples and when appropriate, directs the reader to commonly available computer software that can aid in data processing.
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"The writing style is good, clear, and accurate, with a logical presentation of material. The checklists are effective learning aids." --Carol J. Lancaster, Medical University of South Carolina When should you use a telephone survey, and how do you transform completed telephone interviews into an analyzable, machine-readable data file? This book shows readers how to develop and administer telephone surveys (with particular attention to paper-and-pencil administration) and prepare the results for analysis. Using detailed examples and checklists, the authors explain the different kinds of telephone surveys, how to determine which telephone data collection method to use, and how to design and administer the questionnaires. Information is included for adapting questions originally designed for use in self-administered questionnaires or other data collection modalities. Language issues are discussed, including literacy and language level usage, and basic steps for translating survey materials into other languages. The authors also offer tips for: • Interacting with and motivating respondents • Handling "call backs" and "refusal conversions" • Selecting, training, and supervising interviewers • Sampling, with particular attention to random digit dialing (RDD) procedures • Calculating response rates
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The authors of this volume show how to: develop questions and format a user-friendly questionnaire; pretest, pilot test and revise questionnaires; and write advance and cover letters that motivate and increase response rates. They describe follow-up procedures for nonrespondents from tracking to amount and timing of follow-ups, and demonstrate how to estimate personnel requirements and the costs of a self-administered or mailed survey. Also discussed is how to process, edit and code questionnaires, as well as keep records and fully document the development and administration of the questionnaire and the data collected with it.
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"The authors discuss self-administered questionnaires, the content and format of the questionnaire, "user-friendly" questionnaires and response categories, and survey implementation. They offer excellent checklists for deciding whether or not to use a mail questionnaire, for constructing questions and response categories, for minimizing bias, for writing questionnaire specifications, for formatting and finalizing questionnaires, and for motivating respondents and writing cover letters." --Peter Hernon, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College How do you decide whether a self-administered questionnaire is appropriate for your research question? This book provides readers with an answer to this question while giving them all the basic tools needed for conducting a self-administered or mail survey. Updated to include data from the 2000 Census, the authors show how to develop questions and format a user-friendly questionnaire; pretest, pilot test, and revise questionnaires; and write advance and cover letters that help motivate and increase response rates. They describe how to track and time follow-ups to non-respondents; estimate personnel requirements; and determine the costs of a self-administered or mailed survey. They also demonstrate how to process, edit, and code questionnaires; keep records; fully document how the questionnaire was developed and administered; and how the data collected is related to the questionnaire. New to this edition is expanded coverage on Web-based questionnaires, and literacy and language issues.
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Bourque, Linda Anne Brookover was born on August 25, 1941 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Daughter of Wilbur Bone and Edna Mae (Eberhart) Brookover.
Bachelor, Indiana University, 1963. Master of Arts, Duke University, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, Duke University, 1968.
Postdoctoral researcher, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, 1968-1969; assistant professor sociology, California State University, Los Angeles, 1969-1972; assistant professor to associate professor public health, University of California at Los Angeles, 1972-1986; professor public health, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1986; acting associate director Institute for Social Science Research, University of California at Los Angeles, 1981-1982; vice chair department community health science, University of California at Los Angeles, 1991-1994.
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Violoncellist with Santa Monica (California) Symphony Orchestra, since 1978, Los Angeles Doctors' Symphony, since 1981. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Sociological Association (member medical sociology section council 1975-1978, co-Chairman of Commission freedom research and teaching, 1975-1978, certified recognition 1980), Pacific Sociological Association (co-chairman program committee 1982, v.p.1983), American Public Health Association (member standing commission on status of women 1974-1976), Sociologists for Women in Society, American Association Public Opinion Research, Association Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Delta Omega, Phi AlphaTheta.
Married Don Philippe Bourque, June 3, 1966 (divorced November 1974).