Romualdas Ginevičius

Faculty of Public Management and Business,

Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania

romualdas.ginevicius@mruni.eu

ORCID 0009-0007-0753-6608

Complex quantitative assessment of social research survey results

Abstract. Research on social problems of various natures is gaining more and more attention. Their primary tool is surveying. Various computer programs have been developed to process and analyse the results. On the other hand, the characteristics they calculate may be used only for specific purposes. Their main drawback is that they must provide a generalized picture of the problem in question, i.e., the whole remains unclear. Without this, analogous objects cannot be compared with each other. The proposed methodology, which has the acronym QEQS (Quantitative Evaluation of Quantitative Sizes), provides such opportunities. Its main advantages are that it is possible to combine an unlimited number of answers to questions into a single summarizing size index; any range of scales may be used for assessment; consider the importance of different options for answering the questions; determines not only the aggregated value of the answers to the individual queries but also the index that aggregates them.

Received: December, 2023

1st Revision: September, 2024

Accepted: December, 2024

DOI: 10.14254/2071-8330.2024/17-4/16

JEL Classification: C43, C51, C52

Keywords: social surveys, survey, index summarising responses