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	Ricerca quantitativa esplorativa	Ricerca tramite sondaggio
Campo	Disegno della ricerca	Disegno della ricerca
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	Mid-20th century (codified in social research methods texts c. 1950s–1970s)	Late 19th century; methodologically systematised 1940s–1960s
Ideatore	Earl Babbie; John Creswell (systematic codification in social science methods)	Francis Galton, Charles Booth, and early social statisticians; systematised by Paul Lazarsfeld and colleagues at Columbia in the 1940s
Tipo	Non-experimental quantitative research design	Quantitative (and mixed) non-experimental design
Fonte seminale	Babbie, E. (2021). The Practice of Social Research (15th ed.). Cengage Learning. ISBN: 978-0357360767	Fowler, F. J. (2014). Survey Research Methods (5th ed.). Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-1452259000
Alias	quantitative exploratory design, exploratory survey research, initial quantitative investigation, preliminary quantitative study	survey methodology, questionnaire research, survey design, survey study
Correlati	4	4
Sintesi	Exploratory quantitative research is a non-experimental design used when a phenomenon is insufficiently understood to support formal hypothesis testing. The researcher collects numerical data — typically through surveys, structured observation, or existing records — to describe distributions, detect patterns, and generate hypotheses that more targeted confirmatory studies can subsequently test. It occupies the first stage of a cumulative quantitative research programme.	Survey research is a quantitative (and sometimes mixed-methods) design in which a researcher collects standardised self-report data from a sample drawn from a defined population, using a questionnaire or structured interview. It is the dominant non-experimental strategy for describing population characteristics, estimating prevalence, mapping attitude distributions, and testing bivariate or multivariate associations across social, behavioural, and health sciences.