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Measuring cybercrime and cyberdeviance in surveys

David Buil-Gil, Nicolas Trajtenberg, Marcelo F. Aebi

In: The Routledge International Handbook of Online Deviance

Roderick S. Graham, Stephan G. Humer, Claire Seungeun Lee, Veronika Nagy (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2025), pp. 44-72

"Cybercrime has been on the rise since the 1990s, and so is the need for researchers and public administrations to better estimate its prevalence, incidence, distribution and nature. The limitations of police statistics as measures of crime are widely known and seem even more severe—in terms of th ... more

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Applied communication research methods: Getting started as a researcher

Michael P. Boyle, Mike Schmierbach

New York; London: Routledge, 3rd ed. (2024), xvii, 316 pp.

"This third edition is again a practical introduction to communication research methods, foregrounding the role research plays in communication and media industry careers. Covering major methodologies such as surveys, experiments, focus groups, in-depth interviews, content analysis, and others, the ... more

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Questions to Help Buyers of Online Samples

Amsterdam: ESOMAR (2021), 22 pp.

"This set of questions offers a framework for buyers to use when evaluating the offerings of different online sample providers. It updates and replaces the 2012 ESOMAR publication, 28 Questions to Help Buyers of Online Samples. The questions identify the key issues to consider, introduce consistent ... terminology, explain why each question should be asked, and note the issues buyers should expect to be covered in an answer. The intended use of these questions is that they form a basis for a conversation between buyer and sample provider, rather than simply being used as a checklist to compare offerings across providers. The questions do not cover B2B samples, nor do they attempt to cover specific requirements for different types of research such as pricing, new product development, ad testing etc. When online access panels were first introduced in the 1990s, the model was relatively simple: a buyer provided sampling specifications to a panel owner who drew a sample (from that panel). Over the intervening 25 years, online sample selection has changed in two fundamental ways. First, buyers can now access a a broader set of sources that now includes participants in loyalty programmes and rewards communities within “Get Paid To’ sites, customer lists, intercepts from offer walls, affiliate networks, social media, and other platforms, as well as traditional panels that may or may not be owned by the provider. Second, buyers have the option to access these sources directly via self-service tools, rather than relying on a sample provider to generate the sample on their behalf. There have been other important changes as well. Online research has become truly global and mobile devices have become a common data collection platform. The use of online samples has broadened beyond surveys to include qual/quant applications, communities, passive data collection, and so on. Concerns about privacy and data protection have led to a much-changed regulatory environment that imposes new requirements on both sample buyers and sample providers. Quality assurance techniques have become increasingly sophisticated. As a consequence, the number of issues that buyers must consider when choosing a sample provider has increased substantially." (Purpose and scope, page 3) more

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Manual for measuring ICT access and use by households and individuals

Geneva: ITU (2020), xii, 335 pp.

Since ITU first published this Manual in 2009, the digital technology sector has evolved almost beyond recognition. The Internet is now accessed through a multitude of devices, including mobile phones, tablets and similar handheld computers. The impressive spread of mobile broadband networks has bro ... more

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Remote Surveying in a Pandemic: Handbook

Innovations for Poverty Action (ipa) (2020), 43 pp.

"As part of IPA’s response to COVID-19, many existing and new data collections have shifted to remote data collection modes including computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI), interactive voice response (IVR) and SMS surveys. This transition has required new protocols, new tools, and new work ... more

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Sampling

Dan James, Nigel Simister

INTRAC (2017), 6 pp.

"Sampling is a process that enables information to be collected from a small number of individuals or organisations within a project or programme, and then used to draw conclusions about a wider population. There are many different sampling methods. Quantitative analysis tends to require large, rand ... more

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Quick Guide to Sampling: 6 Sampling Techniques to Reduce Sampling Error

Christine Garcia, Gaurav Jha, Richa Verma, Sahaj Talwar

socialcops (2017), 13 pp.

"Ideally, a survey should gather data on every single person in the target population. For example, a survey about learning outcomes at a small school could track the test scores of every student. Collecting data on everyone in the target population is the best case scenario, since it ensures that e ... more

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Handbook of Survey Methodology for the Social Sciences

Lior Gideon (ed.)

New York: Springer (2012), 520 pp.

"Surveys enjoy great ubiquity among data collection methods in social research: they are flexible in questioning techniques, in the amount of questions asked, in the topics covered, and in the various ways of interactions with respondents. Surveys are also the preferred method by many researchers in ... more

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Empirische Kommunikationsforschung

Bertram Scheufele, Ines Engelmann

Konstanz: UVK (2009), 253 pp.

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Know Your Audience: A Practical Guide to Media Research

Dennis List

Upper Sturt: [author], 3d ed. (2007), 384 pp.

"The first six chapters of this book give you the background information you need to understand how to do an audience survey to a high standard. The explanation is based on the standard face-to-face survey method, where trained interviewers speak directly to audience members. You can use the informa ... more

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Statistik für Kommunikationswissenschaftler

Helmut Küchenhoff et al.

Konstanz: UVK, 2., überarb. Aufl. (2006), 384 pp.

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Methods – Survey Guidelines: A Guide to Implementation of the Household Survey

World Vision Development Resource Team

Washington, DC: World Vision (2002), 115 pp.

"The objective of the household survey is to measure the transformational development indicators on nutrition, immunization, education, water, diarrhoea management, household resilience, poorest households and HIV/AIDS. Development programs should aim to be able to use this survey method with a leve ... more

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Preguntando a nuestro publico: Guía práctica para sondeos de audiencia

Arthur van den Elzen

Quito: Coordinadora de Radios Populares y Educativas del Ecuador (CORAPE) (2000), 143 pp., 37 pp.

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Como elaborar muestras para los sondeos de audiencia

Sandro Macassi, María Cristina Mata

Quito: Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER) (1997), 139 pp.