Browsing Ask: Research and Methods. Volume 16, Issue 1 (2007) by Title

Analiza danych jakościowych przy użyciu programów komputerowych

Bieliński, Jacek; Iwińska, Katarzyna; Rosińska-Kordasiewicz, Anna ( 2007 )

Qualitative and quantitative research are embedded in different epistemological traditions and typically differ in tools applied in data analysis. The computer software was mostly used within quantitative design to carry ...

Are Non-Respondents Similar to Respondents? Findings from the ESS-2004 in Poland

Sztabiński, Franciszek; Sztabiński, Paweł B.; Przybysz, Dariusz ( 2007 )

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 ...

Choosing among Discrete Choice Models for Voting Behavior

Dubrow, Joshua Kjerulf ( 2007 )

Analyses presented in this paper aim at testing demographic cues hypothesis, which explains voting behavior as a function of the distance between the voter and the object of the vote, expressed as demographic similarity. ...

Hierarchical Modeling: Properties and Application

Wilk, Katarzyna ( 2007 )

Empirical analyses of hierarchical data are important in various disciplines, but are most common to the social sciences. Until the 1980’s, when the method of multilevel modeling was introduced, researchers dealt with the ...

Skale ryzyka nadmiernego używania internetu

Kaliszewska, Katarzyna ( 2007 )

In the article the theoretical bases and the psychometric characteristics of the Excessive Internet Use Risk Scales were presented. The scales were constructed for the needs of empirical research conducted in order to ...

Wpływ niezrealizowania części wywiadów na trafność wnioskowania statystycznego w badaniach społecznych. Technika wywiadu kwestionariuszowego oraz telefonicznego w świetle błędów nielosowych

Jabkowski, Piotr ( 2007 )

The article concerns the question of inaccessible units set in the perspective of the theory of statistical conclusion. The focus is on consequences of omitting of non-sampling errors resulting from the lack of knowledge ...