Survey Analysis

Exploration of large-sample size survey use in public policy and related social science disciplines. Topics may include social-psychology of survey response (especially with regard to attitudes and evaluations), issues of question wording and context, interviewer effects, and social desirability pressures; survey-based randomized experiments and unobtrusive measures of behaviors and attitudes; general issues of quantitative research including model specification, random and systematic measurement error, logic of causal analysis, and alternative meanings of statistical importance; and practical considerations in survey analysis including questionnaire construction, sampling and data collection, weighting, variable coding and transformations, scale construction, reliability, and missing values. Students construct and pretest online survey specific to each one's interests.

Letter grading.