Data Collection and Management: A Practical Guide / Edition 1

by Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, Welmoet Bok van Kammen

Overview

This indispensable tool for proposal writers, research students and project coordinators involved in large-scale data collection offers practical information on managing research projects.

The book places emphasis on: applying good standards for data collection and processing; planning research activities; making budgetary decisions and budget control; hiring, training and supervising field interviewing staff; and ensuring high participant acquisition and retention rates, including techniques for locating lost participants. In addition, readers are shown the use of computerized information systems for the tracking of data collected and the data-management process.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803956575
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/21/1995
Series:	Applied Social Research Methods , #39
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Magda has been involved with the Life History Studies group since its inception. She completed her M.A. in Holland, and her Ph.D. in Psychology at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She has published widely on the data from the Pittsburgh Youth Study, particularly in the areas of help seeking and child abuse. Currently, she is working on positive outcomes, i.e., desistance and well-adjusted young men. She has been involved in many of the sub studies and has worked together with researchers who have used data from the Pittsburgh Youth Study.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Planning and Budget
Hiring
Training of Interviewers
Participant Acquisition and Retention
Supervision of Interviewers
Data Management
Quality Control and Research Ethics

Editorial Reviews

Explains to proposal writers, principal investigators, and graduate students in the social sciences, how to manage research projects. Describes how to use good standards for data collection and processing; planning; making and keeping a budget; hiring, training, and supervising interviewers and deciding when they are ready to start field work; and ensuring high participant acquisition and retention rates. Also covers computerized information systems. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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