[DDI-ADG] survey definitions

[Katherine McNeill-Harman]

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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Katherine McNeill-Harman
Data Services Librarian
Dewey Library for Management and Social Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, E53-100
Cambridge, MA 02139
mcneillh at mit.edu
617-253-0787 
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