The Practice of Social Research

Chapter Six.  Indexes, Scales, and Typologies
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INDEXES VERSUS SCALES
INDEX CONSTRUCTION
    Item Selection
    Examination of Empirical Relationships
    Index Scoring
    Handling Missing Data
    Index Validation
    The Status of Women: An Illustration of Index Construction
SCALE CONSTRUCTION
    Bogardus Social Distance Scale
    Thurstone Scales
    Likert Scaling
    Semantic Differential
    Guttman Scaling
TYPOLOGIES
 


Web Resources

Bureau of Labor Statistics, Measurement Issues in the Consumer Price Index

http://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpigm697.htm

Arizona State University, Reliability and Validity
http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~alex/teaching/assessment/reliability.html

Thomas O’Connor, “Scales and Indexes”
http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/308/308lect05.htm