2.10 Key Terms

2.10 Key Terms

1. American Community Survey
2. American Time Use Survey
3. Causation
4. Cohabitation
5. Common sense
6. Conceptualization
7. Correlation
8. Current Population Survey
9. Decennial Census
10. Descriptive statistics
11. Divorce rate
12. Ethics
13. Family
14. Fieldwork observations
15. Frequency
16. Generalizable
17. Hypothesis
18. In-depth interviews
19. Informed consent
20. Marriage rate
21. Mean
22. Median
23. Mode
24. Nonprobability samples
25. Operationalization
26. Percentage
27. Population
28. Primary data
29. Probability sample
30. Qualitative research
31. Quantitative methods
32. Random selection
33. Rates
34. Reliability
35. Secondary data
36. Statistically significant
37. Surveys
38. Validity
39. Value-free research
40. Variables