Survey research used to be preceded by pilot studies. This article shows how one can combine two kinds of them, namely: pre-test and trial study. Pre-tests are carried out on small samples, and their results are analyzed ...

This paper deals with the question of the utility of an interview schedule as filled out by interviewer after the interrogation. They regard it as a tool that helps to assess quality of collected data. I analyze, here, ...

This article deals with adequacy of tools of research. I begin with making some distinction between the methodological, psychological and sociological aspects of adequacy of measurement and interview questions. The second ...

An urgent need to speed up timing of surveys as well as seeking for reduction of financial costs of research prompted development of the new method of surveying. We make an overview, here, a telephone survey, and more ...

It aims to cast some light on the questions concerning control of interviewers in survey research. Control is regarded here as constitutive link in attempts to improve quality of the fieldwork both on the part of process ...

In this paper we show how one method of increasing the response rate, i.e. an extension of the fieldwork period, influences the structure of non-response and the differences between respondents and non-respondents. We used ...

One method to increase the response rate in surveys is to use respondent incentives. The effectiveness of incentives depends on a number of factors which, however, may have a varied impact on respondents’ decisions about ...

Questions concerning socio-demographic features of respondent (so-called background variables) are built into each questionnaire schedule. One should assume that asking them we receive information with error. This analysis ...

This is summary overview of some most distinctive tendencies emerging in area of social research in the first half of the 1990s. We figure out: (1) expansion of public opinion and (2) market research, (3) increasing ...

In Poland, like in other countries, participation in surveys is declining over time. The growing non-response rates increase a risk of systematic bias of the results depending on the differences between non-respondents and ...