POL222H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Survey Data Collection, Statistical Inference, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Lecture outline: survey research and survey experiments, survey research, characteristics of survey experiments, two examples of survey experiment, wrap-up discussion on experimental research. Census: the entire population of interest is covered in the survey. Sample selected by random sampling or its variants. Statistical inference: response of the population are inferred from the representative sample using statistical methods. Experiments conducted on a sample of people randomly selected from a large population (random sample) Experimental treatments are different framing of a question. Framing effect: people answer the same question differently depending on how the question is framed. Framing one: canada has a relatively high poverty rate among comprable countries, of 27 oecd countries, canada recorded the 7th highest poverty rate in 2011. One of the reasons often cited is the insufficiency of social services. Framing two: canada has a relatively high level of government debt. Of the 27 oecd countries, canada recorded the 10th biggest level of government debt in 2014.
