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UNINA9910791714403321 |
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Folz David H |
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Survey research for public administration / / David H. Folz |
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Thousand Oaks : , : SAGE, , 1996 |
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1-4833-2757-4 |
1-4522-4821-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 193 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Public opinion polls |
Public administration - Research |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-182) and index. |
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 - Introduction; Why do a Citizen Survey?; What is a Citizen Survey?; Purpose of This Book; Decision Applications; Policy Formulation; Policy Implementation; Policy Evaluation; Surveys as Participation Mechanisms; The Misuse of Citizen Surveys; An Overview of the Survey Research Process; Summary; Chapter 2 - Planning the Survey; Identifying the Survey's Objectives; What Can Surveys Tell Us? The Problem of Nonattitudes; Types of Information; Opinions and Attitudes; Beliefs and Perceptions; Behaviors |
Facts and Attributes; Specifying Information Needs; Focus Groups; The Time Dimension; Identifying the Target Population; Methods of Contact: The Merits of Mail, Telephone, and Face-to-Face Surveys; Cost Considerations; Personnel Requirements; Implementation Time; Accuracy; Dealing with Nonresponses; Strategies for Surveying Elite or Specialized Populations; Summary; Chapter 3 - Sampling; The Logic of Sampling; Determining Sample Size; Confidence Levels and Intervals; Small Populations; Analysis of Population Subgroups; Computing Sample Size; Sampling Designs |
The Dangers of Nonprobability Sampling; Probability Sampling Methods; Simple Random Sampling; Systematic Sampling; Stratified Random Sampling; Cluster Sampling; Weighting Cases; Obtaining Samples for Telephone Surveys; Random Digit Dialing; Estimating the Size of the Sampling Pool for Telephone Surveys; Screening |
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Respondents for Telephone Interviews; Processing Sampling Pools; Calculating Response Rates; Summary; Chapter 4 - Survey Design and Implementation; The Basics of Question Order; Question Types; Open-Ended Questions; Closed-Ended Questions; Choosing the Question Type |
Avoiding Bias in Questionnaire Design; Composing Questions and Response Choices; Positive Inducements; Composition Standards; Simplicity Versus Specificity; Clarity; Avoiding Biased Terms and Loaded Questions; Time References; Symmetry; Question Order for Mail Surveys; Constructing Indexes and Scales; Designing the Mail Questionnaire; The Cover Letter; The Mail Questionnaire Booklet; Implementing the Mailing; Designing the Telephone Survey; The Introductory Spiel; Question Wording and Order for Telephone Surveys; Pretesting the Questions and the Instrument |
Training Callers and Implementing the Telephone Survey; Summary; Chapter 5 - Coding and Data Entry; The Coding Process; Selecting the Statistical Software; The Coding Scheme; Coding Open-Ended Questions; The Codebook; Data Entry; Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing; Data Cleaning; Summary; Chapter 6 - Data Analysis with Computers; A Statistical Primer; Levels of Measurement; Univariate Analysis; Presenting Survey Results in Tables; Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion; Univariate Analysis with SPSS for Windows; Bivariate Analysis; Constructing Contingency Tables; Measures of Association and Statistical Significance |
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With opinion surveys being used increasingly to measure the public response to governmental initiatives, this book that helps clarify the basics of survey research as they apply to public administration will be welcomed. It is organized around the fundamental stages of the research process - planning, design, implementation, analysis and presentation of data. David H Folz presents practical illustrations and does not assume the reader to have an extensive background in statistics. Thorough coverage of the use of computers in data analysis is provided, together with illustrations of SPSS |
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UNINA9910787107603321 |
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On diversity and complexity of languages spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia / / edited by Pirkko Suihkonen, Lindsay J. Whaley |
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Amsterdam, Netherlands ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylavania : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (455 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in Language Companion Series, , 0165-7763 ; ; Volume 164 |
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Language and languages - Variation |
Linguistic change |
Multilingualism - Europe |
Multilingualism - Asia |
Discourse analysis - Social aspects - Europe |
Discourse analysis - Social aspects - Asia |
Typology (Linguistics) |
Europe Languages |
Asia Languages |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of content; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction; I. Verbal categories and processes in categorization; II. Syntactic functions and case marking; III. Clause combining and discourse; IV. Historical issues; References; The tense-aspect system of Khorchin; 1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries; 3. Data collection and research methdology; 4. Structure of the Khorchin TA system; 5. Markers of the Khorchin TA system; 5.1 Central system |
5.1.1 The Non-Past Non-Progressive -na5.1.2 The Past Non-Imperfective -zE; 5.1.3 Present Progressive and Past Imperfective; 5.1.4 Prospectives; 5.1.5 Markers of resultativity, iterativity and continuativity; 5.2 Minor simple forms and their combinability; 5.2.1 - |
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sen; 5.2.2 -lE; 5.2.3 -i; 5.3 Non-verbal predications; 5.4 Non-temporal and non-aspectual notions; 5.4.1 -tqeg- as a marker of dissatisfaction; 5.4.2 gene and other means related to evidentiality; 5.4.3 Long vs. short suffix variants; 6. Areal and diachronic factors: A preliminary evaluation; References |
Locational and directional relations and tense and aspect marking in Chalkan, a South Siberian Turkic language1. Introduction: Locational and directional relations and tense and aspect marking in Chalkan, a South Siberian Turkic language; 2. Morphological structure of South Siberian Turkic; 3. An outline of biverbal constructions and their grammaticalization paths in South Siberian Turkic; 3.1 Biverbal constructions; 3.2 Aktionsart; 3.3 Aspect-temporal forms; 3.4 Forms of modality and mood; 3.5 Combinations of various biverbal constructions; 4. From an actional form to an aspect-temporal one |
Conspiring motivations for causative and passive isomorphism1. Introduction; 2. Background; 3. Morphological causatives and passives in Xibe; 4. Functional explanation; 4.1 Condition 1: 'Give' as a matrix verb functioning as an analytic causative; 4.2 Condition 2: Matrix verbs become auxiliaries, and/or derivational suffixes; 4.3 Condition 3: Subjects and accusative case markers are often omitted; 4.4 The path to causative/passive isomorphism; 5. Conclusion; Abbreviations; References; Appendix - the corpus; Spatial semantics, case and relator nouns in Evenki; 1. Introduction |
2. Overview of the cases |
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In this article, the historical development of sentential negation is compared across the Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic languages to make inferences about the expression of negation in the common Transeurasian proto-language. Integrating typological considerations, including grammaticalization theory, into the argumentation, the approach taken here differs from previous studies, which are limited to form-function comparison of individual markers. The historical development of negation in the Transeurasian languages is argued to involve a grammaticalization pathway whereby a |
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