Resistance to Community Surveys
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Abstract
The cooperation — passive or active — of respondents and the communities in which they live is the sine qua non of survey research. Carl-son comments in the previous chapter that :'We are able to collect our research data only because the general public continues to be willing to submit to our interviews. This acceptance of us by the public is the basic natural resource on which our industry is built. Without it, we would be out of business tomorrow.' So far, those engaged in surveys which are relatively innocuous as regards purpose, content and populations being studied, have been able to take that cooperation — or inertia — for granted.