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Abstract #304344

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Activity Number:	145
Type:	Contributed
Date/Time:	Monday, August 8, 2005 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor:	Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #304344
Title:	Showcasing Undergraduate Students' Projects Based on Independent Sample Surveys: Design Issues and Aggregation of Survey Results
Author(s):	Raymond Okafor*+
Companies:	University of Lagos, Nigeria
Address:	4607 Washington Street, Roslindale, MA, 02131, United States
Keywords:	Study of Use of Mobile Phones ; students of University of Lagos ; Independent Sample Surveys ; Projects in Math Department ; Aggregation of Results.
Abstract:	This article describes features of several independent, albeit similar, sample surveys carried out by undergraduate students in the statistics unit of the Department of Mathematics, University of Lagos, (Unilag) Lagos, Nigeria. The surveys, which served as final-year projects for the affected students, were used to collect data pertaining to the use of mobile phones by undergraduate students on the main campus. The primary reason for this article is to report the conduct and results of the surveys. The latter, it should be noted, were the first surveys ever undertaken by these students. Thus, it is needless to mention they came face-to-face with the challenges of practical survey work beyond what they ever studied in their survey-sampling courses. In this article, we focus on survey design issues and report how individual students tackled peculiar, especially logistic, problems. We show the computation of the results of the surveys and how these results were combined. The most important finding of the surveys, that about 7 in 10 students of UNILAG used mobile phones in 2004, is quite revealing.

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