This text looks at what many survey scientists believe to be the largest source of error: nonsampling error.

This brief and accessible title integrates contemporary scholarly research with compelling vignettes to make it appealing to both instructors and undergraduate audiences. While focused on the United States in respect to its target audience and emphasis, it contains considerable international data that compares and contrasts social policies adopted in Europe and elsewhere.

This text presents students, researchers and policy makers in the social sciences with the tools for undertaking mixed-methods research for policy research and programme evaluation, from design, through data collection and dissemination.

The book teaches the basic concepts and vocabulary necessary to do program evaluations and to review the quality of evaluation research so as to make informed decisions about methods and outcomes.

Taking the topics of a quantitative methodology course and illustrating them through Monte Carlo simulation, this book illustrates abstract principles, such as bias, efficiency, and measures of uncertainty in an intuitive, visual way.

An exciting new introduction to digital social research tools and methods, this book helps readers to manage the huge amounts of data available, and feel confident if they are attempting this sort of research for the first time.

The first handbook to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the whole field of QDA, and a must-have for all qualitative researchers

This go-to guide covers both the historical background to the emergence of survey research and the practical tools necessary to write survey questions, design a questionnaire, use probability sampling and to understand both pretesting and data collection.

This is a unique methodological resource drawing together contributions from leading scholars across the social sciences, each offering insights into particular measurement-related challenges they have confronted and how they have addressed them.

A brief and accessible text that provides undergraduate sociological theory students with the tools they need to think theoretically about their social world