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Bushery, John; Schreiner, Irwin; Sebron, Gene – 1998
The Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) is an integrated set of surveys that has been conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in 1987-88, 1990-91, and 1993-94. In each of those school years, the Census Bureau also conducted a reinterview of the administrators, schools, and teachers. This report…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Interviews

Salo, Matt T.; Campanelli, Pamela C. – Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 1991
Ethnographic methods were integrated with survey procedures in an experimental daytime count of homeless persons in a major city. Ethnographic data proved valuable for choosing sites, designing questionnaires, developing new interview approaches, and interpreting test results. Recommends a wider use of ethnographic insights in developing surveys,…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Biographical Inventories, Census Figures, Data Collection