Article ID: CBB144739836

Bringing Things Together: Developing the Sample Survey as Practice in the Late Nineteenth Century (2017)

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The first sample surveys in the latter parts of the 19th century were an intellectual social movement. They were motivated by the intention to improve the economic and political conditions of workers. The quantitative survey was considered an ideal because it would present data about the workers as facts, i.e. establish a scientific authoritative truth. In a case study from Denmark, the paper shows how the first survey – a study of seamstresses – was carried out by bringing several cognitive and organizational elements together: a network of researchers, a method for sampling, the construction of a questionnaire, a procedure for coding, and analyzing the data. It was a trial and error process where the researchers lacked relevant concepts and methods but relied on their intuition and on inspiration from abroad.

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Authors & Contributors
Valerio Baiocchi
Gábor Molnár
Gábor Timár
Csilla Galambos
Marco Deligios
Bálint P. Kocsis
Concepts
Surveys
Social surveys
Maps; atlases
Cartography
Data analysis
Probability and statistics
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Medieval
20th century, late
17th century
Places
United States
Russia
Yellowstone River Valley
Middle and Near East
Connecticut (U.S.)
Norway
Institutions
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Habsburg, House of
United States. Dept. of Agriculture
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