The Survey Kit

The kit that helped thousands of researchers and students do better survey research in the 90's has been completely updated and revised for the issues of the 21^st century!

"The Survey Kit is an easy-to-understand, easy-to-follow, comprehensive guide for the novice survey researcher. In addition, it provides useful information about some qualitative research techniques such as interviews, focus groups, observational analysis, and content analysis. Pedagogical features in each volume such as checklists, reasonable resources needed, tips, and decision matrices help students focus on important aspects of the survey process and provide them with a sense of real life application. Detailed discussions of personal interviewing (survey and in-depth), focus group techniques, and risks and odds are welcome additions to the new volumes. "

—Juanita M. Firestone, University of Texas, San Antonio

This ten-volume set shows undergraduate and graduate students how to assess and interpret survey data by thoroughly examining the survey instrument used. Litwin (health services and urology, UCLA School of Public Health) covers such topics as asking questions; conducting self-administered, mail, and telephone surveys and in-person interviews; designing survey studies; sampling; assessing and interpreting survey psychometrics; managing, analyzing, and interpreting data; and reporting. Each volume contain instructional objectives, exercises and answers, examples of surveys and questions, guidelines, checklists, and annotated references. There are no indexes. For those who don't want the whole set, each volume has its own ISBN and individual price. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR

Booknews

A wonderfully clear and simple survey kit for students in undergraduate and graduate classes in the social and health sciences and individuals in the public and private sectors who are responsible for conducting and using surveys. The volumes are also available individually: V.1: The Survey Handbook (5934-6, $16.95); V.2: How to Ask Survey Questions (5745-9, $14.95); V.3: How to Conduct Self-Administered and Mail Surveys (7168-0, $20.95); V.4: How to Conduct Interviews by Telephone and in Person (5719-X, $17.95); V.5: How to Design Surveys (7387-X, $11.95); V.6: How to Sample in Surveys (5754-8, $11.95); V.7: How to Measure Survey Reliability and Validity (5704-1, $11.95); V.8: How to Analyze Survey Data (7386-1, $12.95); and V.9: How to Report on Surveys (7385-3, $12.95). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Arlene Fink (Ph.D.) is Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles and President of the Langley Research Institute. Her main interests include evaluation and survey research and the conduct of research literature reviews as well as the evaluation of their quality. Dr. Fink has conducted many research studies in medicine, public health and education. She is on the faculty of UCLA's Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and its Health Services Research Center and is on the Advisory Board of the University of Southern California's Minority Research Center. She is also a consultant to the American Society for Bioethics, the International Society for Clinical Bioethics, and L'institut de Promotion del la Prévention Secondaire en Addictologie (IPPSA) Paris, France. Professor Fink has lectured extensively in the United States and internationally and is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed articles and 15 textbooks.