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Below are select titles that look at the design of public surveys, and analyse the relationship between public policy and opinion polls. They will help you interpret the results of polls and perhaps come up with a different interpretation or analysis than what’s presented in the media.
Understanding Public Opinion Polls
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Since the topic of COVID-19 immunization is quite new, it is less likely that you’ll find scholarly journal articles analysing opinion polls on vaccine acceptance for this specific virus. However, this topic has been studied in-depth for numerous other diseases, and relevant articles are available through the library’s databases. Useful search terms include:
Here is a list of databases:
Quotation marks: Notice that both “pet therapy” and “animal visitation program” are in quotation marks. This forces the database to search for articles where the words in the given phrase appear in that exact order.
AND: When using Advanced Search, the database allows you to incorporate multiple search terms. The terms are connected by the AND operator within a drop-down menu. Using AND tells the database to only retrieve contents that incorporate all the ideas entered.
OR: Use OR between terms when there are multiple ways of expressing the same concept. You can also use OR to incorporate concepts that are different, but still within the same scope as your topic; for example, “architectural design” OR “urban design.” In the screen capture above, OR is connecting the two similar search terms: “pet therapy” and “animal visitation program.”
NOT: This tells the database to ignore (i.e. not retrieve) results that contain certain key terms often associated with similar concepts; for example, salsa NOT dancing, or “postpartum disorder” NOT depression. In the image below, NOT has been selected in the drop-down menu:
Here are some links to the major Canadian news media sources available through the UFV library, using your myUFV login. These links allow you to access articles behind paywalls, and browse online newspapers without seeing any advertisements. This is especially useful for news articles from The Globe and Mail; many are otherwise only available through paid subscriptions. You can also use Canadian Major Dailies to search for articles from major Canadian newspapers.
Below are some articles (either journalistic or scholarly) on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. Since this is an evolving topic, it is worthwhile to pay attention to the news on a daily basis to find the latest relevant information.
