Abstract
The opening chapters have considered general issues concerning privacy and quantitative social research. The core of the book will now examine two specific types of social research — social surveys and population censuses. Privacy in social research poses problems which cannot be resolved in the abstract. They need to be considered in the context of particular types of data and specific methods of social research. This section considers social survey research.
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Descriptions of the technical operations involved in a social survey are available in a number of standard works: for example, C. A. Moser and G. Kalton, Survey Methods in Social Investigation, London, Heinemann, 1971;
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Bulmer, M. (1979). Introduction. In: Bulmer, M. (eds) Censuses, Surveys and Privacy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16184-3_4
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