Guides to Survey Research

Different Harvard libraries have put together guides to survey and statistical data resources available to Harvard affiliates.

Privacy, Confidentiality, and Data Security web site

This site is maintained by the American Statistical Association's Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality. It provides guidelines and standards for protecting the privacy and confidentality of survey respondents and other sources throughout the process of data distribution and analysis.

Link:

http://www.amstat.org/comm/cmtepc/index.cfm?fuseaction=main

Survey Research Methods

Link:

http://srcweb.berkeley.edu/

Link:

http://www.princeton.edu/~psrc/

Guides to Survey Research

Biostatistics and Biometry (Countway Library of Medicine)

Link:

http://www.countway.harvard.edu/dl/subjects.shtml?search=Public%20Health/Biostat...

Guides to Survey Research

Statistics Research Guide (Harvard Business School Baker Library)

Link:

http://www.library.hbs.edu/guides/statistics

Guides to Survey Research

Data Collections (Harvard-MIT Data Center)

Link:

http://www.hmdc.harvard.edu/data_services.html

Guides to Survey Research

Government Documents (Harvard College Library)

Link:

http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/ssp/government/

Guides to Survey Research

U.S. Statistical Data (Kennedy School Library)

Link:

http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/library/ref_usdata.htm

Guides to Survey Research

Demography Resources (Countway Library of Medicine)

Link:

http://www.countway.harvard.edu/dl/subjects.shtml?search=Public%20Health/Demogra...

Guides to Survey Research

United States Census Data Resources (Harvard College Library)

Link:

http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/census_us

Guides to Survey Research

Politics and Elections (Kennedy School Library)

Link:

http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/library/www_politic.htm

Guides to Survey Research

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Spring Conference Recap

Experts offer Multiple Takes on Technology at Conference

Thomas Guterbock summed things up nicely at the recent “New Technolgies and Survey Research” conference held by the Program on Survey Research at Harvard University.

In his presentation “Strategies and Standards for Reaching Respondents in a New Age of Technology,” Guterbock – the Director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Survey Research – described both sides of the new technology coin: it’s easier than ever for pollsters and survey researchers to get in touch with people – via cellphone, email, instant message, etc.; at the same time, other technologies are making it easier for those same people to avoid surveys—by using caller id, answering machines, etc.

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