The Use of Indexes in Professional Social Researches

ISBN-13: 9783631827284 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 164 str.

Luiza Mesesan-Schmitz;Claudiu Coman

Opis

The book is written specifically for students or young researchers with no prior experience in the procedure of index construction. The book is designed as a self-teaching aid, thus some terms related to index are clarified, and some typologies of this kind of variable and the procedure of constructing index are presented. Using examples and datasets from social research, tables and SPSS screen captures, the readers are guided through this process. Some problems encountered in practice in this process of constructing an index are highlighted and some solutions are presented.

Spis treści

On indexes or composite indices

Procedure for index construction

Types of indexes

The stability index in marketing studies

The stability index in election studies

O autorze

Luiza Mese an Schmitz is a Lecturer at the Social Science and Communication Department of Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania. She has a PhD in Sociology and she teaches Social statistics, Promoting Health and Social Demography. She has been involved in many research projects as a statistical expert in quantitative analysis. She has relevant work experience in the field of older people's health, migration studies, and index construction.

Claudiu Coman is a Professor at the Social Science and Communication Department of Transilvania University of Brasov. He has a PhD in Social and Political Sciences and he is PhD supervisor. His areas of interests include Society and Communication, Sociology of Communication, Management of Image campaigns, and Voting Behaviour. He has published several books and many articles on these topics. Also ran many grants and research contracts as a director or member of the team.