[DDI-ADG] survey definitions

[Mary Vardigan]

Kate and others,

These definitions are really helpful. Should we be thinking about selecting 
one source as the definitive one?

Mary

At 05:23 PM 7/27/2005, Katherine McNeill-Harman wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I went through our social science methods reference books and compiled the 
>attached list of different survey definitions.  It's a lengthy Word 
>document (if anyone can't read this format, I'll put it in a plain-text 
>email to you).  Pages 1-14 are organized by topics, with the different 
>definitions for a topic listed on a single page; pages 15-20 are the 
>definitions organized by their source.
>
>Couple of notes:
>- I included those terms that we'd specifically discussed as well as 
>others that were mentioned or I picked up along the way.
>- I didn't really do an analysis, but in typing them in they seemed fairly 
>consistent in meaning (even if not in exact wording)
>- In terms of the likelihood of these changing, several current 
>dictionaries referenced definitions developed a couple of decades ago, so 
>it seems unlikely they'd change very often (maybe more likely that new 
>models would need to be added).
>
>Kate
>
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