Exam 7: Asking People About Themselves: Survey Research

On a survey,Judd is asked to indicate his age,gender,and marital status.These items best represent which type of survey question?

The sampling ________ is the actual set of people who might be included in the sample after the population is defined.

"The Windsor city council members should not be allowed to vote on increases in their own pay" is an example of a _____ question.

Jack has a difficult time answering the question "Are you in favour of increasing tuition in order to increase the number of classes and parking spaces offered?" because it is a _____ question.

The city council wants to examine their citizens' feelings about allowing dogs on the city's beaches.They construct a list of all the blocks in the city and randomly select 20% of the blocks to sample.They then survey all residents of the selected city blocks.This sampling strategy is an example of which of the following sampling techniques?

A researcher wants to study math achievement in sixth graders.The researcher obtains a list of all elementary school districts in the province,randomly selects 5 percent of the districts,and administers achievement tests to all sixth graders in these districts.This sampling method is called ________ sampling.

Nancy assesses voters' attitudes toward their likelihood to vote in the city elections by asking them to make a check on a 100-millimeter line with the anchor "very unlikely" at one end of the line and the anchor "very likely" at the other.This would be an example of which type of rating scale?

Researchers are often not worried about obtaining random samples from the "general population" for their research because

"Do you favour elected officials not be allowed to run for more than two consecutive terms in office?" is an example of which type of question?

Which one of the following is a probability sampling technique?

If you are asked to choose "yes or no" for the question "Are you a full-time student?" you have been asked a(n)_____ question.