Statistical Analysis of Survey Data: a Study of On-campus Living and Study Environmentsand Their Relation to Academic Performance: Auniversity of Namibia Case Study

Survey research collects data on respondentâ¿¿sperception on issues of concern or interest. Statistical analysis of survey data is thus animportant tool in the summarization, manipulation andinterpretation of quantitative data to discover itsunderlying causes, trends and relationships. Statistical procedures falls into three generalcategories: descriptive (portray individuals or events in terms of predefined characteristics), associative (identify meaningful interrelationships between and among data) and inferential assess thecharacteristics of a sample in order to make moregeneral statements about the parent population orabout the relationship between various samples orpopulations). This book focuses on the followingaspect of the surveys:. Description of survey design.. Sampling procedure and the calculation of the sample size. Interpretation of cross tabulations. Issues concerning model selection and fitting as well as the evaluation of model fitting is discussedThus detail discussion of procedures and wellarticulated analysis makes this book an idealreference to anyone conducting surveys.