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This chapter offers a series of proposed regulations for areas of applied social research that have little risk for the research participants. Such areas include program evaluation, social experimentation, social indicators research, survey research, secondary analysis of research data, and statistical analysis of administrative records.1 These areas of research, which we will refer to collectively as “program evaluation,” have been free of publicized abuses, and relatively free of regulation common to other areas of biomedical and behavioral research.
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Campbell, D.T., Cecil, J.S. (1982). A Proposed System of Regulation for the Protection of Participants in Low-Risk Areas of Applied Social Research. In: Sieber, J.E. (eds) The Ethics of Social Research. Springer Series in Social Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5722-6_5
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