The Practice of Social Research

Chapter Fourteen.  Quantitative Data Analysis

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QUANTIFICATION OF DATA
    Developing code Categories
    Codebook Construction
    Data Entry
UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS
    Distributions
    Central Tendency
    Dispersion
    Continuous and Discrete Variables
    Detail versus Manageability
SUBGROUP COMPARISONS
    "Collapsing" Response Categories
    Handling "Don't Knows"
    Numerical Descriptions in Qualitative Research
BIVARIATE ANALYSIS
    Percentaging a Table
    Constructing and Reading Bivariate Tables
INTRODUCTION TO MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
 
 



Web Resources

University of Michigan, Survey Documentation and Analysis
    http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/GSS/

Hee-Joe Cho and William Trochim, Categorical Data Analysis
    http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/tutorial/cho/outline.htm

Roland K. Hawkes, Some Sources of Quantitative Data
    http://www.siu.edu/~hawkes/methods.html