ELASTIC SURVEY AND ITS FIRST APPLICATIONS IN ROMANIA AND HUNGARY
ELASTIC SURVEY AND ITS FIRST APPLICATIONS IN ROMANIA AND HUNGARY

Summary/Abstract: This paper revives a methodological dispute laid aside in the forties, taking the standard character of surveys into consideration. It stresses that the standard requirement of asking the questions verbatim every time needs to be reconsidered due to three shortcomings: it produces invalid results, it is un-implementable and unethical. We present an alternative method called ‘elastic survey’ and illustrate it with two applications within researches carried out in Romania and Hungary.

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