WSP01521

• File Number: 8443.400
• Description: Narrows Unit Reports
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 6/15/1974
• Author: US DOL BOR
• Title: Draft Social Assessment of the Proposed Narrows Unit and Alternatives Thereto
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

find out if different advocacy groups existed with respect

to the projects -- i.e., groups trying to achieve different

ends (e.g., businessmen, farmers, environmentalists, small

home owners, etc.).

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Finally, it was likely that many of the benefits and

costs "trade-offs" with one another; i.e., aChieving a

good of one type would be accomplished at the same time that

a signficant cost of another type occurr.ed (or. some people

gained while others lost).

Since so many variables have been

reviewed in a short space it is useful to summarize them as

is done in Table I.

The development of such a listing of variables for

which data are to be collected is consistent with the traditions

of sociometric research. However, in order to fully comply with

this research procedure, one usually develops a standardized

questionnaire and sampling procedure and then collects the

data accordingly.

It is at this point that some problems

emerge.

To fully carry out such a design would be an enormous

effort in dollars and man-years.

Moreover, various research

experiences suggest that it is not warranted in this circum-

stance.

Rather, by using these data as guideposts to what

one's concerns are, together with considerable secondary data

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already available, and applying this orientation under a more

ethnographic approach where subjects being studied are allowed

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to present what they think is important, one rapidly can gain

much of the information efficiently and at considerably less

expense.

Thus, a comprehensive and more holistic analysis is

used.

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