Chapter 8 Self-Grading Quizzes

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. Longitudinal studies are studies conducted ______.

in different locations correct incorrect

at different points of time correct incorrect

by different researchers correct incorrect

randomly correct incorrect

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. ______ surveys are the most common format for contemporary survey research.

Internet correct incorrect

Mail correct incorrect

Panel correct incorrect

Telephone correct incorrect

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. Most survey research is based on ___________, and only rarely aims to survey _________.

A non-probability sample; a probability sample correct incorrect

A probability sample; a population correct incorrect

A non-probability sample; a population correct incorrect

A population; a probability sample correct incorrect

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. Which of these is an open-ended question?

In the most recent federal election, did you vote? correct incorrect

Would you say that your political preferences are more closely aligned to the Liberals, the Conservatives, the New Democrats, the Greens, the Bloc Québecois, another party, or none of the above? correct incorrect

What is your most important priority for the new provincial government? correct incorrect

On a scale of 1-5, how important is the issue of pharmacare to you? correct incorrect

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. Which of these is not an important piece of advice for survey construction?

Use neutral language so as not to bias respondents. correct incorrect

Try to make the respondent uncomfortable to solicit more honest responses. correct incorrect

Select the highest level of measurement possible. correct incorrect

Create a plan for handling missing data correct incorrect

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. The process of making data ready for analysis is called:

Data management correct incorrect

Data cleaning correct incorrect

Data collection correct incorrect

Data aggregation correct incorrect

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. After defining a population and determining a sampling strategy, what is the next step of conducting survey research?

Collecting the data correct incorrect

Making statistical inferences correct incorrect

Clean the data correct incorrect

Developing questions correct incorrect

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. PAPI and CAPI are the acronyms for two types of:

Internet surveys correct incorrect

Face-to-face surveys correct incorrect

Self-Administered surveys correct incorrect

Telephone surveys correct incorrect

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. Researchers sometimes buy space in ____________, large national surveys run regularly by private firms that combine multiple types of questions.

Longitudinal surveys correct incorrect

Cross-sectional surveys correct incorrect

Omnibus surveys correct incorrect

Secondary data correct incorrect

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. Which of these is not an example of secondary data?

Statistics collected by a national statistics agency correct incorrect

Survey data collected by a group of researchers and made publicly available for use correct incorrect

A big data set produced by a social media platform correct incorrect

A survey your research team creates and fields correct incorrect

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. Statistics Canada's General Social Survey (GSS) and the Canadian Elections Studies' (CES) campaign period and post-election surveys are examples of face-to-face surveys.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. In survey research, a close-ended question is one that allows respondents to choose from a response set that identifies all the answers.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Open-ended responses are by far the more popular Question type in survey research.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Survey research usually produces large-N data.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Because people answer survey questions in their natural environment, the data is non-reactive.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Testing a survey is an important step in preparing for data collection.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Many secondary data sources have large sample sizes, which makes them less useful for theory-testing.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect