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A 3 page consideration of the factors that translate into neighborhood security. This paper suggests various survey parameters that can be used to make this assessment. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPcrmNeighborhoodSrvy.rtf
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are only as reliable as are those that are completing them! Several precautions, however, can be taken to insure that the outcome of a survey is more reflective of
fact than it is of fiction. Consider, for example, a survey assessing crime and neighborhood security. If the survey simply asks residents their opinion of the level of
crime in their neighborhood the results are likely to be useless. There are, however, various means that researchers can insure that their survey yields valuable information.
In their simplest form surveys can be delivered in either an oral or a written format. There are advantages and disadvantages of each approach.
In written surveys the researcher is more assured that they respondent is responding to the same question that other respondents replied to. Written surveys, however, also leave more room
for imaginations to run wild so to speak. When surveys are delivered orally the researcher or his or her representative is there to clarify various points and to focus
the respondent on the question that it being presented. On the other hand, the input of the researcher has the tendency to vary from one respondent to the other.
The best of both worlds in terms of survey design is a survey that combines a written survey with a human overseer of
the responses. In their more valuable form, surveys consist of standardized written questions with a selection of standardized responses (i.e. multiple choice responses) that are delivered in person to
the respondent by the researcher. Researchers, however, must be trained so that they deliver the same type of input to all survey respondents. This prevents discrepancies on the
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