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    <title>Research methods for social work</title>
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    <namePart>Rubin, Allen.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Babbie, Earl R.</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Pacific Grove</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Brooks/Cole Pub. Co.</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c1997</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1997</dateIssued>
    <edition>3rd ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxvii, 758p.: ill. ; 25 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: Human inquiry and science -- Theory and research -- The Ethics and politics of social work research -- Problem formulation -- Conceptualization and operationalization -- Measurement -- Constructing measurement instruments -- The Logic of sampling -- Casual inference and group designs -- Single-subject designs -- Survey research -- Quantitative research methods -- Unobtrustive research: quantitative and qualitative methods -- Processing data -- Interpreting descriptive statistics and tables -- Inferential data analysis: part 1 &amp; 2 -- Program evaluation -- Appendixes.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Allen Rubin, Earl Babbie.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Social service</topic>
    <topic>Research</topic>
    <topic>Methodology</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc" edition="20">361/.0072</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0534263887 (acidfree paper)</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">96017903</identifier>
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