Sociology and the Survey

This discussion will allow us to examine and discuss the key issues about conducting surveys.  These key issues are cost considerations, the advantages and disadvantages of written questionnaires, questionnaire design considerations, pre-notification letters, cover letters, response rates, nonresponse bias, the order of the questions, anonymity and confidentiality, questionnaire length, reply envelopes and postage, the "Don't Know," "Undecided," and "Neutral" response options, sponsorship, sampling methods, etc..

Go to the first web site https://www.statpac.com/surveys/ and read about these issues.  Then access two of these topics and summarize that part of the tutorial.  Tell us what you learned from this site.