ARTS280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Snowball Sampling, Nonprobability Sampling, Quota Sampling
12 Mar 2016
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Types of exising datasets: aricles, books, online agencies such as stats canada. Collecing your own data you want to see what similar exists. Even qualitaive data is easy to transfer in quanitaive: why get it from its source, more recent, more what you want o you might provide beter analysis, online resources, stats canada. Contains large variety of good quality staisical data, both recent and historical. Useful for: demographic proiles of a region or group realiies/trends (immigraion, birth rates, demographic economic data (gdp, unemployment, 2011 consensus and naional household survey. Census: quesionnaire to be complete by all heads of households, every 5 years. Nhs: random sample represening roughly 20% of canadian households; is voluntary; replaced long form 2011 consensus: cansim. Provide all tables generated by stats can on you chosen topic. Name and describe the three types of staisics canada datasets seen in class.
