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Empirical Research: Survey Research

This guide will provide resources for empirical legal research including information on data sets and statistical packages.

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Websites

Harvard University's Program on Survey Research has a number of very useful resources on survey research.

University of Illinois at Chicago's Survey Research Laboratory has aggregated websites on survey research.

The American Statistical Association has a section on Survey Research Methods. Included on this site are links to resources, information on webinars and the SRMS newsletter.

University of Michigan has a Survey Research Center, which provides training programs in survey methodology.

Journals

Survey Methodology is a journal published by the Canadian agency in charge of the collection of statistics, Statistics Canada. It publishes articles on topics such design issues, data sources and collection techniques.

The American Statistical Association has a Survey Research Methods Section. The Section's Proceedings are online and contain many useful articles.

Books

Fowler, Floyd J. Survey Research Methods. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2009. HN29 .F68 2009
Gobo, Giampietro. Constructing Survey Data: An Interactional Approach. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2014. HA31.2 G63 2014
Rea, Louis M. & Parker, Richard A. Designing and Conducting Survey Research: A Comprehensive Guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2014. HA31.2 .R43 2014

Articles

Danielle Shapiro, et al. "Using Mechanical Turk to Study Clinical Populations" 1 Clinical Psychological Science 213-220 (2013).

Jesse Chandler, et al. "Methodological Concerns and Advanced Uses of Crowdsourcing in Psychological Research" at http://www.academia.edu/1816137/Methodological_Concerns_and_Advanced_Uses_of_Crowdsourcing_in_Psychological_Research (accessed October 25, 2013).