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More About This Title Designing and Conducting Health Surveys: A Comprehensive Guide, Third Edition
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LLEWELLYN JOSEPH CORNELIUS, PHD, is Professor of Social Work, University of Maryland at Baltimore, School of Social Work. He is also Associate Director of the Institute for Human Services Policy. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Ghana-Legon, School of Public Health, Department of Sociology and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health. He also has been a fellow in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.
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Figures, Tables, and Exhibits vii
Foreword by Steven B. Cohen xi
Preface xv
The Authors xxi
1 Thinking About Topics for Health Surveys 1
2 Matching the Survey Design to Survey Objectives 27
3 Defining and Clarifying the Survey Variables 48
4 Thinking Through the Relationships Between Variables 81
5 Choosing the Methods of Data Collection 100
6 Deciding Who Will Be in the Sample 124
7 Deciding How Many Will Be in the Sample 154
8 General Principles for Formulating Questions 194
9 Formulating Questions About Health 221
10 Formulating Questions About Demographics and Behavior 245
11 Formulating Questions About Knowledge and Attitudes 268
12 Guidelines for Formatting the Questionnaire 288
13 Monitoring and Carrying Out the Survey 311
14 Preparing the Data for Analysis 340
15 Planning and Implementing the Analysis of the Data 360
16 Writing the Research Report 391
Resource A: Personal Interview Survey: UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS-2)—End-Decade Study 405
Resource B: Telephone Interview Survey: California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)—2001 407
Resource C: Mail Questionnaire Survey: National Dental Malpractice Survey 408
Resource D: Selected Sources on Health Surveys 433
Resource E: Selected Examples of Health Surveys 442
References 451
Name Index 495
Subject Index 505
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—Don A. Dillman, Regents Professor and the Thomas S. Foley Distinguished Professor of Government and Public Policy in the Department of Sociology and Department of Community and Rural Sociology, Washington State University
"Aday and Cornelius have created a comprehensive volume that is impressive in both breadth and depth and that expertly covers the range of topics that health survey researchers, and survey researchers in general, need to master. As both a training tool and reference, this book is a tremendously valuable resource."
—Gordon Willis, Ph.D., associate professor, Joint Program for Survey Methodology, University of Maryland