Survey Methodology

Upon completion of the course, you:

Knowledge

• demonstrate an understanding of the central principles in survey design;
• understand how and why surveys are applied in the social sciences;
• recognize the differences between different sampling methods, and reflect on their suitable use;
• delineate between different types of missing data principles: missing completely at random, missing at random, and nonignorable missing;
• identify factors that indicate high survey quality.

Skills

• conduct statistical analyses with survey data to estimate population parameters while accounting for the survey design (e.g., the use of sampling weights);
• use multiple imputation to handle missing data in the statistical environment R.

Competencies

• critically read and interpret results from survey reports and secondary analyses of survey data;
• Identify and develop a systematic survey approach for given research questions.

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.

All students in the Assessment, Measurement and Evaluation Master program have equal access to the course. Qualified exchange students or students from other master's programmes at UiO may be considered based on capacity.

Contact us if you want to apply for the course. If you are unsure of whether or not you have sufficient prior knowledge, please send us documentation of previous relevant courses you have taken.

This course combines lectures, seminars with group work, and computer labs with data analysis tasks in the R environment.

Obligatory activities:

• Attendance in the first lecture
• Submission of one multiple choice question and four alternative answers after each session.

You need to have successfully completed the obligatory course activities before being allowed to sit the exam. All exam qualifying components need to be met in one and the same year. Once qualified for participating in the exam, you retain this qualification for the next two times the course is offered.

The exam format is an oral examination with preparation time.

At the start of the exam, you will randomly draw a set of questions relating to one or more of the course topics.

Before providing and defending your answers to these questions, you are given up to 30 minutes to make notes and prepare your answers.

You will not be able to consult supporting material nor be able to consult the internet, but will be given pencil and paper. Any electronic device needs to be handed over in advance to the proctor in the preparation room and will be returned to you after your exam.

After the preparation time, you present your response to the questions at hand and answer follow-up questions and requests for clarification posed by the examiners.

You need to have successfully completed the obligatory course components before being allowed to sit the exam. All exam qualifying components need to be met in one and the same year. Once qualified for participating in the exam, you retain this qualification for the next two times the course is offered.

Previously given exams and grading guides.

• Illness at exams / postponed exams
• Resitting an examination