The STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI issue article summary

The summary of the selected article appears at the bottom of the page. In order to get back to the contents of the issue this article belongs to you have to access the link from the title. In order to see all the articles of the archive which have as author/co-author one of the authors mentioned below, you have to access the link from the author's name.

This paper revives a methodological dispute laid aside in the forties, taking the standard character of surveys into consideration. It stresses that the standard requirement of asking the questions verbatim every time needs to be reconsidered due to three shortcomings: it produces invalid results, it is un-implementable and unethical. We present an alternative method called ‘elastic survey’ and illustrate it with two applications within researches carried out in Romania and Hungary.

Keywords: Elastic survey, standard, validity, fieldwork, omnibus