Chapter 3

• File 3.1: An Excel sample size calculator.
• File 3.2: A checklist containing the questions and aspects of a study that a pilot study should ideally cover.
• File 3.3: An SPSS data file to follow the description of how to calculate Cronbach’s alpha.

List of URLs mentioned in Chapter 3

Web links to online sample size calculators:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/sample-size-calculator/

http://www.nss.gov.au/nss/home.nsf/pages/Sample size calculator

https://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm

Online survey tools:

http://www.surveymonkey.com

http://www.surveygizmo.com

http://www.google.com/google-d-s/forms/

https://www.qualtrics.com/de/

To accessibility test sites:

http://colorbrewer2.org/

http://www.nvaccess.org/

http://wave.webaim.org/

http://dasplankton.de/ContrastA/

Hazard Perception Test: https://www.gov.uk/theory-test/hazard-perception-test

Mainstream Media Accountability Survey: https://web.archive.org/web/20170217023015/https://gop.com/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/

Stonewall resource: https://www.stonewall.org.uk/resources/do-ask-do-tell

Stats websites:

Brazil: http://www.unicamp.br/cesop/ (in Portuguese)

Canada: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/ (also available in French)

China: http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/

Denmark: http://www.dda.dk/ (in Danish)

Germany: http://www.gesis.org/ (also available in German), http://www.issp.org/

Ireland: http://www.cso.ie/

Norway: http://www.nsd.uib.no/english/

South Africa: http://www.nrf.ac.za/information-resources/databases

UK: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/ , http://www.statistics.gov.uk/ ,

USA: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/issr/da/

Global: http://www.sociosite.net/databases.php

Randomiser websites:

https://www.randomizer.org/

https://www.random.org/

Link to existing surveys

European Social Survey: http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/

British Election Study: http://www.britishelectionstudy.com/

British Social Attitude Survey: https://data.gov.uk/dataset/british-social-attitudes-survey

OECD website: http://stats.oecd.org/

Result of specific query: http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=RGRADSTY