Wednesday, April 22, 2020 

Survey Design

This workshop provides an overview of survey construction, including

a.) consideration of your population and sample,

b.) the different question types and

c.) common errors in question construction and interpretation.

Chris Bader, Professor, Department of Sociology

Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Christopher Bader is a Professor of Sociology at Chapman University and affiliated with the Institute for Religion, Economics and Culture (IRES).  He was principal investigator of the first two waves of the Baylor Religion Survey, a nationwide survey of US religious beliefs.  He is associate director of the Association of Religion Data Archives (www.theArda.com), an online archive of religion survey data funded by the Templeton Foundation and Lilly Foundation and supported by Penn State University and Chapman.

Christopher is the author of two books, America's Four Gods and Paranormal America, and has published, to date, 35 articles and chapters in the fields of sociology, deviance, criminology, the sociology of religion and education.