| dc.creator | Prewitt, Kenneth | |
| dc.date | 2011-05-04T11:04:29Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-05-04T11:04:29Z | |
| dc.date | 1975 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-10T15:40:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-10T15:40:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 10-11-12 | |
| dc.identifier | Prewitt, Kenneth. (1975) Introductory research methodology: East African applications. Occasional Paper 10, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/786 | |
| dc.identifier | 319053 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/handle/123456789/2008 | |
| dc.description | This is a textbook in introductory social science methodology,
with an emphasis on East African illustrations and applications, It covers
standard topics in social data collection: sampling theory, survey questionnaires
and interviewing, use of public documents and aggregate statistics,
and systematic observation. It then reviews basic concepts in statistical
data analysis, including simple correlations and tests of statistical
significance.
The text is written for beginning students in the social sciences
and for other persons, especially civil servants, whose occupation requires
that they be knowledgeable consumers of social science research reports.
The emphasis throughout is placed on conceptual understanding rather
than on computational knowledge. The text is not a 'how to' book in that it
does not instruct the reader how to become a practicing social scientist.
Rather it tries to tell the reader what the practicing social scientist is
doing, and why. The purpose is to help the reader become an intelligent
user, and critic, of social science research. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Occasional Paper;10 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.rights | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.title | Introductory research methodology: East African applications | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
