Quantitative social research methods

Development research techniques -- Social research : genesis and scope -- Research process -- Sampling and sample size estimation -- Data analysis -- Multivariate analysis -- Data analysis using quantitative software -- Population, health and nutrition -- Education -- Water and sanitation -- Poverty, inequality and rural development -- Environment and natural resource management

Quantitative Social Research Methods explores the entire spectrum of quantitative. social research methods and their application, with special reference to the development. sector. It provides detailed coverage of all statistical research and analysis. method with an emphasis on multivariate analysis techniques, such as regression. discriminant analysis, logistic regression, factor, factor, cluster, correspondence. and conjoint analysis. The book is thematically arranged in two sections: the first section introduces. development research techniques, explores the genesis and scope of social res