POS 6757
Survey Research
Spring, 2013

Links of Interest


General Links to Resources

University of Illinois-Chicago - good list of academic organizations and sites
Roper Center - excellent summary on the fundamentals of polling
University of Southern Indiana - strong on statistics related to survey research
Cornell University - broad set of links including international survey organizations
ASA Survey Research Methods Section - link to discussion list for survey methodologists
POR list at UNC - this discussion list may or may not still exist but it was very useful in the past
American Association for Public Opinion Research - a very comprehensive source
Survey Practice - online journal devoted to contemporary issues in survey research

Focused Links

Total Survey Error

Charlemagne's Interview Schedule from 811

Charles Booth Archive


CBS News Poll on Gays in the Military, February, 2010

Selecting Socioeconomic Measures for Survey Research: A Bibliography

The Ultimate Survey Research Link
Exit Polling

California F Scale
Reliability Analysis Example
Factor Scores
Creating Scales - excellent Powerpoint

Social Desirability?
List Experiment Bibliography
More on List Experiments
Estimating Prevalence of Sensitive Behavior using RRT

Mass Apostasy or Question Wording?

Interviewer Falsification

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Dataverse Network
Time-Sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences - TESS

Literary Digest Poll
Calculating Margin of Error
Table of Margin of Error
Normal Curve
Survey Sampling, Inc.
UF Statistical Consulting

Sampling Rare Populations - A Bibliography
List Experiment Bibliography
AAPOR Response Rate Calculator


APOR Task Force on Cell Phone Research

Amelia Software for Analyzing Missing Data

Guidelines for Coding and Managing Data
Managing and Processing Data
SPSS On-Line Training Workshop - I recommend playing the movie clips "Getting Started," Define/Modify Variables," and "Crosstabs Procedures."
On-line Survey Analysis
Is there a relationship?
Guidelines for Presenting Tables
Miller - Guide to Multivariate Analysis

Federal Standards and Guidelines for Statistical Surveys
IRB02 - Institutional Review Board for Non-Medical Research at UF
CASRO Standards

AAPOR Code of Professional Ethics
AAPOR Statement on Protection of Human Subjects in Survey Research