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BL
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1029596
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b783966
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| Title & Author
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Social research in developing countries : : surveys and censuses in the Third World /\ edited by Martin Bulmer and Donald P. Warwick.
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| Publication Statement
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[London] :: UCL Press,, 1993.
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| Series Statement
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Social development in the Third World
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| Page. NO
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xviii, 383 pages :: illustrations ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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1857281373
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: 9781857281378
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| Notes
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Originally published in hardback in 1983 by John Wiley.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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| Contents
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General introduction / Martin Bulmer -- Research strategy / Martin Bulmer and Donald P. Warwick -- Population censuses and national sample surveys in deveioping countries / Benjamin Gil and E.N. Omaboe -- Sample surveys for social science in underdeveloped areas / J. Mayone Stycos -- The limitations of KAP surveys / Philip M. Hauser -- Situational variables / Margaret Peil -- Sampling / Martin Bulmer -- Some problems of sampling work in underdeveloped countries / Siobodan S. Zarkovich -- The development of the sample design of the Indian National Sample Survey during its first 25 rounds / M.N. Murthy and A.S. Roy -- Missing the point : sampling methods and types of error in Third World surveys in identifying poverty issues / Michael Ward -- Data collectlon / Martin Bulmer and Donald P. Warwick -- Questionnaires in Asia / Gabriele Wuelker -- Designing a questionnaire for Polynesian and Pakeha car assembly workers / Brian R. Flay, Patrick E. Bull and John Tamahori -- Assessing linguistic wquivalence in multilingual surveys / Shanto Iyengar -- Reliability of survey techniques in highland Peru / J. Oscar Alers -- Experience of retrospective demographic enquiries to determine vital rates / J.C.G. Blacker and W. Brass -- Interviewing and field organization / Martin Bulmer -- Survey materials collected in the developing countries : sampling, measurement and interviewing obstacles to intranational and international comparisons / Robert Edward Mitchell -- Fieldwork in rural areas / Allan F. Hershfield, Niels G. Rohling, Graham B. Kerr and Gerald Hursh-César -- The courtesy bias in South-East Asian surveys / Emily L. Jones -- Cultural complications in fertility interviewing / Harvey M. Choldin, A. Majeed Kahn and B. Hosne Ara -- On methodological integration in social research / Donald P. Warwick -- On the integration of research methods / William F. Whyte and Giorgio Alberti -- The politics and ethics of field research / Donald P. Warwick -- The experimenting society and radical social reform : the role of the social scientist in Chile's Unidad Popular experience / Ricardo B. Zuniga -- The KAP survey : dictates of mission versus demands of science / Donald P. Warwick -- Misapplied cross-cultural research : a case study of an ill-fated family planning research project / Charles D. Kleymeyer and William E. Bertrand.
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| Abstract
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"Deals with particular problems of carrying out social surveys and censuses in the Third World. Research design, sampling, data collection and the social context of research are discussed."
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| Subject
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Social sciences-- Research-- Developing countries.
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Social surveys-- Developing countries.
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Social sciences-- Methodology.
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Social sciences-- Research.
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Social surveys.
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Developing countries, Census.
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Developing countries.
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| Dewey Classification
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300.72
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| LC Classification
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H62.S6738 1993
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| Added Entry
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Bulmer, Martin.
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Warwick, Donald P.
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