Design and Analysis of Surveys
This is only offered as a customised course.
This course is 5 mornings online and is available as an in-house course.
This course covers the principles and practice of designing surveys, and the analysis of data from them. The following topics will be covered:
- Survey methods: face-to-face interviews; on-line surveys; phone interviews; paper questionnaires.
- Questionnaire design: open and closed questions; wording and ordering; layout and length of questionnaire; memory and recall; sensitive questions; pilot testing.
- Measurement: types of data; Likert scales; reliability.
- Sampling methods: simple random sampling; stratified sampling; systematic sampling; cluster sampling; multi-stage sampling; non-probability methods.
- Sample size and non-response.
- Estimation of population means, totals and proportions.
- Cross-tabulation and analysis of survey data.
- Analysis of ordinal responses.
Course presenter:
The presenter is Associate Professor Graham Hepworth, of the Statistical Consulting Centre. Graham has had extensive experience over three decades in the area of design and analysis of surveys, in fields such as medicine, the social sciences, education and agriculture.
Course structure:
Each of the 5 mornings will consist of two approximately equal-length sessions; the first session of the day will be from 9:00am to 10:30am, and the second session from 11:00am to 12:30pm. The sessions will mix lecture presentations with practical work.
A certificate will be provided on completion.
The statistical package SPSS will be used in the course for the numerical aspects.
Cost:
Please email Graham Hepworth or Deb Maillardet for more costing information.