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Chapter 6 is my own story of going into survey research as a career, along with the myriad opportunities that practical survey skills open up for PhDs. I discuss some of the various types of employment for survey researchers – government and government contractors, nonprofits, private companies, politics and elections, media, and alt-academic positions. Then I suggest a few ways to develop skills in survey research, whether you are in graduate school or in an academic position.
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Jackson, N. (2023). Opportunities and Pathways in Survey Research. In: Jackson, N. (eds) Non-Academic Careers for Quantitative Social Scientists. Texts in Quantitative Political Analysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35036-8_6
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