Year: 1997
Type: report
Abstract: I wrote this document as part of a research assignment funded by the Ministry for the Environment and by a number of local authorities and private companies.The assignment, 'Guidelines for community odour assessment', was to prepare advice for those planning to collect information on a community's perception of odour.My job was to write about the statistical aspects of surveying a community.This was only a small part of the assignment: Carolyn Blackford did the rest -including a review of case law, a review of overseas practice, advice on questionnaire design.Although this is about surveying a community for its perception of odour, most of what is in this document will apply to any survey of a community.The document appears as I first wrote it, before it was incorporated into a final report I have added this foreword and an appendix.The appendix expands on comments made at the end of section 4. I wanted to summarise how I thought it easiest to survey individuals when an over-estimate of the problem would be an advantage.But I thought this material would be more difficult than what is in the rest of this document, and so I made no attempt to write this material up in time to include it in the final report.
Author: James B. Young
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2344295473