Teacher(s)

Schoumaker Bruno;

Language

French

Content

The sessions will address the following themes:

1. Quantitative Surveys: General issues
2. Presentation of the main demographic and social survey programs
3. Typologies of quantitative and technical surveys and problems specific to retrospective and prospective surveys
4. Identification of the target population
5. Events and reference periods
6. Construction of the questionnaire
7. Formulation of questions and nature of variables
8. Elaboration of a plan for analyzing the questionnaires
9. Intoduction to sampling methods

These different themes will be introduced in class and students will be led to put into practice points 4,5,6,7,8, 9.

Teaching methods

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.

Lectures, and individual and group work.

Evaluation methods

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.

January
Group work to present the characteristics of a survey program (e.g. GGP, SHARE, EDS, LSMS) (10%)
Group work to develop a quantitative survey protocol and a questionnaire module that will be pre-tested. Two interim oral presentations are planned (1st presentation: 10%; 2nd presentation: 10%). A written work containing a critical evaluation of the achievement of the different stages of this work and the questionnaire module will be submitted early January (30%).
This evaluation is completed by a written evaluation in session. (40%)
Septembre
Students can either present only the written evaluation (40%), or the the written work (30%), or both. An oral presentation of the work is also possible (20%). 

Other information

Support: Provision of references, presentations and other course materials on the Moodle site.

Faculty or entity

PSAD