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Exemplars

Each exemplar uses a different survey and illustrates different design features and techniques (see table.) They are not in order of difficulty. If you are new to survey research methods Exemplars 3 or 4 might be good starting points.

Where should you start ?

Surveys	Survey Type	Features	Techniques exemplified	Exemplars
Family Resources Survey more....	Household	Clustering, post-stratification	Replication methods (jackknife)	Exemplar 1 - Income distribution
Scottish Household Survey more....	Individual within household	Partial clustering, disproportionate stratification	Subgroup analyses chi squared tests logistic regression	Exemplar 2 - Factors affecting Internet use
Scottish Health Survey more....	Individual within household	Clustering, non-response adjustment	Effect of weighting	Exemplar 3 - Smoking by Health Board
Workplace Employee Relations Survey more....	Workplaces	Very unequal probabilities of selection	Regression	Exemplar 4 - Equal opportunities policies within workplaces
Ayr and Arran Health Survey health board as survey link not yet available	Postal	Poor response rate	Weighting for non-response	Exemplar 5 - Young women and drugs
Edinburgh Study of Youth transitions and crimemore....	Longitudinal	Dropout	imputation	Exemplar 6 - Young people and delinquency

peas project 2004/2005/2006.