Duration
18 weeks
Study method
100% Online
Available loans
- FEE-HELP
Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Not required
QS RANKING 2022
13
Times Higher Education Ranking 2022
11
Subject details
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- "A week-by-week guide to the topics you will explore in this subject will be provided in your study materials."
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
- MAQ-SOCX830-Doing Social Survey Research (No longer available)
Others
Admission to MPSP or MPASR or GradCertPASR or GradDipPASR (OUA) NCCW (pre-2020 units) SGY889, SOC830, SOCX830 NCCW (2020 and onwards) SOCI 8015 Doing Social Survey Research
Additional requirements
- Other requirements -
Students who have an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion under Macquarie University's Academic Progression Policy are not permitted to enrol in OUA units offered by Macquarie University. Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.
This subject was previously known as SOCX830 Doing Social Survey Research.
This is a subject in applied survey research and data analysis. It will explain key survey techniques used and give you the chance to try them out in practice. The unit covers choosing survey methods, administering surveys and writing good survey questions. It also looks at some of the debates around the potentials and limits of surveys. Qualitative researchers often rely on surveys to prepare themselves for fieldwork or to 'triangulate' their results from interview work. But ultimately, surveys are designed to enable statistical analysis of data, and therefore the unit covers some of the statistical techniques used. Understanding how quantitative analytical methods work with and augment qualitative methods requires some knowledge and use of statistics and a statistical package.
- Online Quiz (20%)
- R Analysis Tasks (30%)
- Survey research report (40%)
- Course Participation (10%)
