SOAN 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Recode, University Of Western Ontario, Descriptive Statistics

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2120
• Professor: David Walters

Document Summary

Understand the various ways to acquire survey data. Ways to acquire survey data: create your own survey: Time consuming; creating questions, sampling design, interviews, coding the data, dealing with errors. Expensive, due to the large and ideal sample sizes. Convenience samples if not random, lazy samples, which do not give appropriate conclusion. Implications for publishing; difficult to publish results is the sample is not representative: use available datasets: Most of the work is done for you. Availability of questions; pre-set questions that cannot be changed: examples of available dataset resources, data resource centre (drc): Health, crime, demography, violence against women, economics, etc. Public use: hence, somewhat suppressed information, such as exact income, research data centre (rdc): Access to confidential information; such as earnings, crime, mental health status, student loans. U of t, u of w, mcmaster, uwo, guelph, access of rdc information cannot be downloaded.