A nuts-and-bolts guide to conducting your own professional-quality surveys without paying professional fees. How can you gauge public support for a cause or test the market for a product or service? What are the best methods for validating opinions for use in a paper or dissertation? A well-documented survey is the answer. But what if you don?...

First published in 1990 as \"A Community Researcher\'s Guide to Rural Data\" this completely revised edition explains how to find and obtain the most current information on rural America both in published form and electronically....