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OECD Publishing, 2025
The OECD's Survey on Social and Emotional Skills (SSES) 2023 represents the largest global initiative to gather comparable data on the development of social and emotional skills among 10- and 15-year-old students. In the 2023 cycle of SSES, 16 sites implemented an assessment of students' social and emotional skills and collected contextual…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Interpersonal Competence, Surveys
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Barratt, Monica J.; Ferris, Jason A.; Lenton, Simon – Field Methods, 2015
Online purposive samples have unknown biases and may not strictly be used to make inferences about wider populations, yet such inferences continue to occur. We compared the demographic and drug use characteristics of Australian ecstasy users from a probability (National Drug Strategy Household Survey, n = 726) and purposive sample (online survey…
Descriptors: Sampling, Validity, Drug Abuse, Probability
Blanton, Rebecca E.; Foster, Lisa K. – California Research Bureau, 2012
In 2011, CalVet and the California Commission on the Status of Women (the Commission) requested the California Research Bureau (CRB) conduct a second iteration of its 2009 survey of women veterans; identifying their needs, surveying their service utilization and gathering information on their demographics. This report provides the findings of the…
Descriptors: Females, Participant Characteristics, Veterans, Individual Needs
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Wroughton, Jacqueline R.; McGowan, Herle M.; Weiss, Leigh V.; Cope, Tara M. – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2013
Context provides meaning for data analysis and the evaluation of evidence but may be distracting to students. This research explores the role of context in students' reasoning about sampling: specifically, the relationship between the strength of students' opinions about a topic, which provides the context for a study, and their ability to judge…
Descriptors: College Students, Measures (Individuals), Student Surveys, Interviews
Summerhill, William R.; And Others – 1987
Attitudes and preferences toward mail surveys were studied from the viewpoint of the recipient. Approximately 386 residents of a small rural community in Florida were sent a questionnaire about attitudes toward mail surveys, with half receiving a follow-up card after 4 days. A total of 123 usable questionnaires were returned. Respondents were…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Data Collection, Demography, Participant Satisfaction
Bureau of the Census (DOC), Washington, DC. Data User Services Div. – 1983
This report provides technical documentation associated with a 1980 Census of Population and Housing Summary Tape File (STF) 3F--which contains responses to the extended questionnaire summarized in STF 3, aggregated by school district. The file contains sample data inflated to represent the total population, 100% counts, and unweighted sample…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Databases, Demography, Educational Background