Latest additions and modifications
October 2015
New page
Developing research projects using survey data
September 2015
Amendments to Pantheon, including obituaries of Claus Moser (died 5 Sep 2015: see Guardian obituary)
and Muriel Nissel (editor Social Trends: died 1989)
August 2015
War and Peace
New section on local villages during the Nazi occupation, on D-Day, and on their liberation by the US 2nd Armored Division
July 2015
Count Us In: New report from British Academy
May 2015
Educational Project Overcoming Statistics anxiety (EPOS) is a research project at the University of Leuven and contains various reports on course construction and content, experience of teachers and students etc.
New upload (restored by scans and MS Snips)
Hall & Ring 1974
Indicators of Environmental Quality and Life-Satisfaction: a subjective approach
Paper to International Sociological Association Research Committee 26 Perceptions of Environmental Quality and Measuring the Quality of Life. 8th World Congress, Toronto, 1974
New pages:
SN 7146: ONS Opinions Survey, Well‐Being Module, April 2011
SN 28: Relative Deprivation and Social Justice 1962-63
April 2015
Links to Esther Leerkes and David C Howell SPSS mini-manuals
The Longer Manual
The Shorter Manual
(written for beginners as guides to the main manual) and to David Howell's teaching materials from University of Vermont Web Page Materials for Statistical Methods for Psychology, 8th ed.
Response to 2001 ESRC Green paper on Data Policy and Archiving
Sad news of death on 2nd April (at his home in Sun Valley, Idaho) of Norman Nie, co-author with Dale Bent and Tex Hull of Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 1970.
New link to impressive MANTRA site (Edinburgh) for data management and anlyisis. Also new tutorial Data Handling Using SPSS 19 by Laine Ruus (2014)
March 2015
Review of
David de Vaus
Surveys in Social Research
(6th edition, Routledge, 2014)
New (draft) visual aid for teaching underlying idea behind regression and correlation
4.5.1 Visual aid for regression and correlation
Major re-organisation of menus and pages.
New page Workshop and presentations for ASSESS (SPSS users in Europe)
Alan Reifman's list of Summer Statistics and Methods courses for 2015
January 2015
Review of
Johnny Blair, Ronald F. Czaja, Edward A. Blair
Designing Surveys: A Guide to Decisions and Procedures
(Sage 2014)
December 2014
New page: Survey Research and Social Action
November 2014
Review of
Lesley Andres
Designing and Doing Survey Research
(Sage 2012)
October 2014
ASSESS 2014: Links to Contents
Slide-shows
This site won't accept files in MS Office *. ppt format: they have to be converted first. You can see the slide-shows for my workshop and presentation sessions for ASSESS (York) via my academia.edu page.
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: working with alien SPSS files (Introduction to, and critical commentary on, SPSS files from major surveys distributed by the UK Data Service and others, with particular emphasis on their suitability and ease of use for teaching and secondary research.)
Slides for Close Encounters are on Talks
The Beginners’ [Clods’ ] Guide to Survey Analysis Using SPSS (Training workshop)
Slides for Clods' Guide are on Teaching-Documents
New tutorial 3.2.4 Income differences - Elaboration examines what happens to epsilon (percentage point differences) to compare earnings of men and women when controlling for selected (combinations of) test variables. Analysis is by tabulation in contingency tables using SPSS CROSSTABS but also demonstrates how CTABLES produces neater and cleaner tables.
August-September 2014
New page: Teaching with Survey Data with new commentaries:
Introduction and Commentary: Unrestricted Access Teaching Dataset (SN 7146)
Commentary on Relative Deprivation and Social Justice (SN 28)
SN28 Appendix 1 - Download of original data from UKDS
SN28 Appendix 4 - Annette Scambler's version
Link to new publication:
UK Data Service guide: Depositing shareable survey data on page Academic survey research centres (United Kingdom)
July 2014
New page: Liberation celebrations 2014
Guide: Depositing shareable survey data [pdf]
(Link to new publication from the UK Data Service)
The Beginner's (Clod's) Guide to Survey Analysis Using SPSS for Windows
(Synopsis of workshop for ASSESS, York, 31st October 2014)
May 2014
New upload
Mark Abrams and John Hall
Attitudes of Girls in Senior Forms [pdf]
Internal SSRC SU paper (Feb, 1973) reporting on selected findings from The "Trinians" survey
March 2014
Page(s) re-organised:
Academic centres with specialisms in survey research
United Kingdom
Europe
USA and Canada
New course: First Summer School on Survey Methodology, RECSM, Barcelona
New Catalogue of SPSS tutorials (Excel *.xlsx] Catalogue of SPSS tutorials [pdf]
New Guide to pop-out menus
February 2014
Notice of GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology
(Leibnitz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne)
New upload: Notes on British Social Attitudes 2004 teaching data set (as used by Marsh and Elliott, 2008)
January 2014
Qualtrics added to list of on-line survey providers
New upload:
Cathie Marsh
Guidelines on commissioning an interview survey from a research company
(Pamphlet) SSRC Survey Unit, 1976
New page
Data sets and documents used for tutorials and exercises
includes the following:
British Social Attitudes
Commentary on SPSS file for British Social Attitudes 2011
Notes on British Social Attitudes 2004 teaching data set (as used by Marsh and Elliott, 2008)
Understanding Society
Commentary on Understanding Society 2010
ONS Opinions Survey: Well-being module (April 2011)
Notes on unrestricted access teaching data set [Still in preparation]
(Data set and user guide from Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, Manchester)
NORC General Social Survey (GSS)
Commentary on full NORC General Social Survey 2008
Commentary on subset of General Social Survey 2008 (as used by Sweet & Grace-Martin)
Commentary on GSS 2008 SPSS files for Babbie et al (as used by Babbie, Halley, Wagner & Zaino)
November 2013
New pages:
A note on statistical concepts
Statistics textbooks for social research
Armistice Day 2013
October 2013
New entry for Understanding Society on page United Kingdom (Major survey series: other)
New page Understanding Society: SPSS files and documentation temporarily withdrawn pending permissions.
Two new documents added:
1: Comments on the distributed SPSS file for British Social Attitudes 2011
2: Notes on BHPS and Understanding Society
Two new sites added:
Laerd Statistics is based on SPSS and is aimed at students and teachers. It's very reasonably priced (in $$, ££ or €€) for one to six months access to materials on the site, but before signing up, you can browse through the statistics notes which are applicable to any similar data.
Profile is aimed at market research users and is a customer profiling add-on for IBM SPSS Statistics which can be added to the GUI. Free trial offered, but you can also access the user guide to see what's covered.
August 2013
New link to video clips comprising helpful introductions to statistics in society, written and presented by Ken Heather (Portsmouth). They set everything in a social context and can be found on Economics Network which forms part of the DeSTRESS project co-funded by the Higher Education Council and JISC (formerly the Joint Information Systems Committee) Open Educational Resource Programme in collaboration with various UK universities. They are particularly aimed at students in Economics, Geography, Sociology and Politics in collaboration with various UK universities.
July 2013
Suite of tutorial exercises to examine differences in earnings from paid work between men and women. See 3.1.4.1 to 3.1.4.5 on page 3.1 Two variables
June 2013
Homework exercise 2.3.1.5 and specimen answers 2.3.1.6.1 and 2.3.1.6.2 on page
2.3 Data transformations
Link to on-line SPSS tutorials at LSE
Video clips and slide-shows for D-Day ceremony 2013 and Midsummer Night Music 2013
2.3.0 Preliminary file downloads New tutorial demonstrating how to download raw data *.txt and SPSS
*.sav saved files
2.3.1.2a1 Select and rename variables
Exercise using SPSS command GET. . . /KEEP to select variables from the main 1986 BSA survey,
change the variable names and edit variable properties.
2.3.1.2a2 Recode into new variable
Exercise to create a new variable using RECODE...... INTO
2.3.1.2b1 Select, rename and recode homework
Homework exercise using SPSS command GET. . . /KEEP to select variables from the main 1989
BSA survey, change the variable names and edit variable properties.
2.3.1.2b2 Select, rename and recode specimen answer
Specimen answer for homework exercise to create a new variable using RECODE... INTO
Includes a bit of housekeeping to avoid clutter
May 2013
Catalogue of SPSS tutorials (Excel file with full hyperlinks)
Guide to pop-out menus for Survey Analysis Workshop
New tutorial and exercise for SPSS Utilities
1.5.1 Tutorial: Checking SPSS (saved) data files (Draft only: May 2013)
1.5.2 Exercise: Checking SPSS (saved) data files (Draft only: May 2013)
New page What people have said about this site
New category Documentation in Articles on survey research has link to end of research reports from the European Social Survey.
New page Stata and SPSS will compare syntax and output
April 2013
New textbook Sweet and Grace-Martin
New website link The Analysis Factor
New entry: 2.3.0 Downloading and saving SPSS files from this site
New note on screen messages during data transformations
New tutorials for selecting and renaming variables Use of RECODE . . .INTO to create new variables..
2.3.1.2a1 Select and rename variables
2.3.1.2a2 Recode into new variable
Re-arranged summary guide and detailed guide pages for SPSS. Searches landing on www.academia.edu are now re-directed to this site: pages on this site can now be viewed direct from their site.
Completely revamped SPSS textbooks by splitting it into separate pages as it was getting very long.
March 2013
Data sets used now has sample Excel spreadsheets as alternative to ASCII files for input to SPSS.
Mark Abrams audio files converted to mp3 and are now downloadable direct from this site
February 2013
Added potted biography "Career so far"
Re-arranged content of Home page and main menu
Profile of Angus Campbell
Details of the European Quality of Life Surveys (EQLS)
January 2013
Video clip (converted from recently discovered Super-8 reels) of garden reception for Prof Angus Campbell to meet staff of newly establish Survey Research Unit
December 2012
Link to Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) Essex University
November 2012
Life in France:
Video clip and slideshow for visit of 2nd US Armored Division veterans
(65th anniversary tour for D-Day and Battle of Normandy, 2 September 2009)
Video clip and slideshow for National Pedal-car championships 2012.
Major re-organisation of the pages for Subjective Social Indicators and addition of new material on methodology. measurement and instruments.
New Google internal site search application
October 2012
Updated information on British Social Attitudes series: links to the the Economic and Social Data Service
for SPSS saved files and associated documentation are on British Social Attitudes 1983 onwards.
Added link to Andy Field's Statistics Hell site.
Modified text-book pages to give pop-ups.
September 2012
The Mark Abrams audio files are now hosted by www.calbregroup.us
June 2012
Powermutt: a complete undergraduate course in research methods for political science and related disciplines, using SPSS. (Prof John Korey, CSU Pomona)
Account of a young Jewish refugee's stay in our village in 1944. (Life in France)
Report by Mark Abrams' BBC propaganda unit:
Analysis of Hitler's Speech on 26th April 1942 [Marked Secret]
(Report by JTW, dated 10 June 1942)
April 2012
Transcript and audio files of a 1984 interview with Mark Abrams, also copies of, or links to, winning and short-listed entries for the Mark Abrams Prize
March 2012
New page Survey Research Pantheon devoted to the great and the good of survey research whom I knew and worked with.
1: Mark Abrams
2: Cathie Marsh
New tutorials working through multiple response questions
3.3.3.1 Analysing multiple response exercise 1 - One field per code
Deals with a question on qualifications obtained by education and/or training. There is a list of 15 qualifications (coded from 01 to 15) each of which has been allocated its own fixed 2-column field: the tutorial demonstrates how to read in the raw data, specify a group variable for qualifications obtained and produce a grouped frequency table.
3.3.3.2 Analysing multiple response exercise 2 - More values than fields
Deals with a question on whether the respondent is prejudiced against people of other races and, if so, which races. There are 13 possible code values, but only 3 fields allocated.
January 2012
New entries on SPSS textbooks (Babbie et al., Pollock, plus on-line book by Levesque & SPSS Inc.
New page on Mark Abrams
Two short articles by Mark Abrams
Social Indicators and Social Equity 1972
and This Britain 1: A Contented Nation? 1974
Link to OECD report by Mark Abrams and John Hall 1972
Life Satisfaction of the British People: October - November 1971
November 2011
Added short article by Sarah Abrams on the Trinians survey (1973)
Split 2.3 Data Transformations into separate pages and added a detailed index to the section
September/October 2011
Major new exercise on conditional frequencies.
2.3.1.3 Conditional frequencies exercise
2.3.1.4 Specimen answers for exercise 2.3.1.3 (Conditional frequencies)
New links to SPSS tutorials from datastep and Iowa
New link to survey methods syllabus from North Carolina State (see postgrad courses)
Revamped pages on COUNT and COMPUTE (See: 3.5.2 Teenage Attitudes)
August 2011
Converting all Block 1, 2 and 3 files to pdf and checking links are to pdf files on this site
.
July 2011
Revamping of hierarchy of files: when hovering over menu items, sub-pages are now displayed.
Updating of info and files for the Trinians survey (Attitudes and opinions of senior pupils in a girls' public school)
Revision of multiple response tutorials, now uploaded in pdf format.
SPSS Essentials for Social Statistics by Quincy Edwards, (Univ of Hawaii)
Set of 19 step-by-step slide-shows (SPSS 15/16 ) no commentary, but self-explanatory) for
students in sociology and related subjects.
SPSS Textbooks and Survey Methods Textbooks pages have been split into sub-pages if there are reviews or detailed comments of particular books
June 2011
New book added to Survey Methods Textbooks. My short review of Handbook of Survey Research
(Peter V Marsden & James D Wright [Eds], Emerald, 2010) also has hyperlinks to Publisher’s book details (EmeraldInsight) Preview pages (on Google books) Interview with Editors and to Contributor profiles (a separate page I have created for profiles of the 46 authors.). Definitely worth a look (and get your institution to buy).
May 2011
New books added to SPSS textbooks
1: Adventures in Social Research: Data Analysis Using SPSS 11.0/11.5 for Windows
(Earl Babbie, Fred Halley and Jeanne Zaino, 5th edition, Sage 2003) uses SPSS11 for Windows.
See review by Gill Gillespie.(Northumbria University) The latest edition is:
2: Adventures in Social Research: Data Analysis Using IBM SPSS Statistics
(Earl Babbie, Fred S. Halley, William E Wagner and Jeanne Zaino, (7th edition, Sage 2011) Uses IBM
SPSS 18. Comprehensive coverage of the research process as well as SPSS,using data from the 2008
General Social Survey but with GUI, not syntax..
New page
Developing research projects using survey data
September 2015
Amendments to Pantheon, including obituaries of Claus Moser (died 5 Sep 2015: see Guardian obituary)
and Muriel Nissel (editor Social Trends: died 1989)
August 2015
War and Peace
New section on local villages during the Nazi occupation, on D-Day, and on their liberation by the US 2nd Armored Division
July 2015
Count Us In: New report from British Academy
May 2015
Educational Project Overcoming Statistics anxiety (EPOS) is a research project at the University of Leuven and contains various reports on course construction and content, experience of teachers and students etc.
New upload (restored by scans and MS Snips)
Hall & Ring 1974
Indicators of Environmental Quality and Life-Satisfaction: a subjective approach
Paper to International Sociological Association Research Committee 26 Perceptions of Environmental Quality and Measuring the Quality of Life. 8th World Congress, Toronto, 1974
New pages:
SN 7146: ONS Opinions Survey, Well‐Being Module, April 2011
SN 28: Relative Deprivation and Social Justice 1962-63
April 2015
Links to Esther Leerkes and David C Howell SPSS mini-manuals
The Longer Manual
The Shorter Manual
(written for beginners as guides to the main manual) and to David Howell's teaching materials from University of Vermont Web Page Materials for Statistical Methods for Psychology, 8th ed.
Response to 2001 ESRC Green paper on Data Policy and Archiving
Sad news of death on 2nd April (at his home in Sun Valley, Idaho) of Norman Nie, co-author with Dale Bent and Tex Hull of Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 1970.
New link to impressive MANTRA site (Edinburgh) for data management and anlyisis. Also new tutorial Data Handling Using SPSS 19 by Laine Ruus (2014)
March 2015
Review of
David de Vaus
Surveys in Social Research
(6th edition, Routledge, 2014)
New (draft) visual aid for teaching underlying idea behind regression and correlation
4.5.1 Visual aid for regression and correlation
Major re-organisation of menus and pages.
New page Workshop and presentations for ASSESS (SPSS users in Europe)
Alan Reifman's list of Summer Statistics and Methods courses for 2015
January 2015
Review of
Johnny Blair, Ronald F. Czaja, Edward A. Blair
Designing Surveys: A Guide to Decisions and Procedures
(Sage 2014)
December 2014
New page: Survey Research and Social Action
November 2014
Review of
Lesley Andres
Designing and Doing Survey Research
(Sage 2012)
October 2014
ASSESS 2014: Links to Contents
Slide-shows
This site won't accept files in MS Office *. ppt format: they have to be converted first. You can see the slide-shows for my workshop and presentation sessions for ASSESS (York) via my academia.edu page.
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: working with alien SPSS files (Introduction to, and critical commentary on, SPSS files from major surveys distributed by the UK Data Service and others, with particular emphasis on their suitability and ease of use for teaching and secondary research.)
Slides for Close Encounters are on Talks
The Beginners’ [Clods’ ] Guide to Survey Analysis Using SPSS (Training workshop)
Slides for Clods' Guide are on Teaching-Documents
New tutorial 3.2.4 Income differences - Elaboration examines what happens to epsilon (percentage point differences) to compare earnings of men and women when controlling for selected (combinations of) test variables. Analysis is by tabulation in contingency tables using SPSS CROSSTABS but also demonstrates how CTABLES produces neater and cleaner tables.
August-September 2014
New page: Teaching with Survey Data with new commentaries:
Introduction and Commentary: Unrestricted Access Teaching Dataset (SN 7146)
Commentary on Relative Deprivation and Social Justice (SN 28)
SN28 Appendix 1 - Download of original data from UKDS
SN28 Appendix 4 - Annette Scambler's version
Link to new publication:
UK Data Service guide: Depositing shareable survey data on page Academic survey research centres (United Kingdom)
July 2014
New page: Liberation celebrations 2014
Guide: Depositing shareable survey data [pdf]
(Link to new publication from the UK Data Service)
The Beginner's (Clod's) Guide to Survey Analysis Using SPSS for Windows
(Synopsis of workshop for ASSESS, York, 31st October 2014)
May 2014
New upload
Mark Abrams and John Hall
Attitudes of Girls in Senior Forms [pdf]
Internal SSRC SU paper (Feb, 1973) reporting on selected findings from The "Trinians" survey
March 2014
Page(s) re-organised:
Academic centres with specialisms in survey research
United Kingdom
Europe
USA and Canada
New course: First Summer School on Survey Methodology, RECSM, Barcelona
New Catalogue of SPSS tutorials (Excel *.xlsx] Catalogue of SPSS tutorials [pdf]
New Guide to pop-out menus
February 2014
Notice of GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology
(Leibnitz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne)
New upload: Notes on British Social Attitudes 2004 teaching data set (as used by Marsh and Elliott, 2008)
January 2014
Qualtrics added to list of on-line survey providers
New upload:
Cathie Marsh
Guidelines on commissioning an interview survey from a research company
(Pamphlet) SSRC Survey Unit, 1976
New page
Data sets and documents used for tutorials and exercises
includes the following:
British Social Attitudes
Commentary on SPSS file for British Social Attitudes 2011
Notes on British Social Attitudes 2004 teaching data set (as used by Marsh and Elliott, 2008)
Understanding Society
Commentary on Understanding Society 2010
ONS Opinions Survey: Well-being module (April 2011)
Notes on unrestricted access teaching data set [Still in preparation]
(Data set and user guide from Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, Manchester)
NORC General Social Survey (GSS)
Commentary on full NORC General Social Survey 2008
Commentary on subset of General Social Survey 2008 (as used by Sweet & Grace-Martin)
Commentary on GSS 2008 SPSS files for Babbie et al (as used by Babbie, Halley, Wagner & Zaino)
November 2013
New pages:
A note on statistical concepts
Statistics textbooks for social research
Armistice Day 2013
October 2013
New entry for Understanding Society on page United Kingdom (Major survey series: other)
New page Understanding Society: SPSS files and documentation temporarily withdrawn pending permissions.
Two new documents added:
1: Comments on the distributed SPSS file for British Social Attitudes 2011
2: Notes on BHPS and Understanding Society
Two new sites added:
Laerd Statistics is based on SPSS and is aimed at students and teachers. It's very reasonably priced (in $$, ££ or €€) for one to six months access to materials on the site, but before signing up, you can browse through the statistics notes which are applicable to any similar data.
Profile is aimed at market research users and is a customer profiling add-on for IBM SPSS Statistics which can be added to the GUI. Free trial offered, but you can also access the user guide to see what's covered.
August 2013
New link to video clips comprising helpful introductions to statistics in society, written and presented by Ken Heather (Portsmouth). They set everything in a social context and can be found on Economics Network which forms part of the DeSTRESS project co-funded by the Higher Education Council and JISC (formerly the Joint Information Systems Committee) Open Educational Resource Programme in collaboration with various UK universities. They are particularly aimed at students in Economics, Geography, Sociology and Politics in collaboration with various UK universities.
July 2013
Suite of tutorial exercises to examine differences in earnings from paid work between men and women. See 3.1.4.1 to 3.1.4.5 on page 3.1 Two variables
June 2013
Homework exercise 2.3.1.5 and specimen answers 2.3.1.6.1 and 2.3.1.6.2 on page
2.3 Data transformations
Link to on-line SPSS tutorials at LSE
Video clips and slide-shows for D-Day ceremony 2013 and Midsummer Night Music 2013
2.3.0 Preliminary file downloads New tutorial demonstrating how to download raw data *.txt and SPSS
*.sav saved files
2.3.1.2a1 Select and rename variables
Exercise using SPSS command GET. . . /KEEP to select variables from the main 1986 BSA survey,
change the variable names and edit variable properties.
2.3.1.2a2 Recode into new variable
Exercise to create a new variable using RECODE...... INTO
2.3.1.2b1 Select, rename and recode homework
Homework exercise using SPSS command GET. . . /KEEP to select variables from the main 1989
BSA survey, change the variable names and edit variable properties.
2.3.1.2b2 Select, rename and recode specimen answer
Specimen answer for homework exercise to create a new variable using RECODE... INTO
Includes a bit of housekeeping to avoid clutter
May 2013
Catalogue of SPSS tutorials (Excel file with full hyperlinks)
Guide to pop-out menus for Survey Analysis Workshop
New tutorial and exercise for SPSS Utilities
1.5.1 Tutorial: Checking SPSS (saved) data files (Draft only: May 2013)
1.5.2 Exercise: Checking SPSS (saved) data files (Draft only: May 2013)
New page What people have said about this site
New category Documentation in Articles on survey research has link to end of research reports from the European Social Survey.
New page Stata and SPSS will compare syntax and output
April 2013
New textbook Sweet and Grace-Martin
New website link The Analysis Factor
New entry: 2.3.0 Downloading and saving SPSS files from this site
New note on screen messages during data transformations
New tutorials for selecting and renaming variables Use of RECODE . . .INTO to create new variables..
2.3.1.2a1 Select and rename variables
2.3.1.2a2 Recode into new variable
Re-arranged summary guide and detailed guide pages for SPSS. Searches landing on www.academia.edu are now re-directed to this site: pages on this site can now be viewed direct from their site.
Completely revamped SPSS textbooks by splitting it into separate pages as it was getting very long.
March 2013
Data sets used now has sample Excel spreadsheets as alternative to ASCII files for input to SPSS.
Mark Abrams audio files converted to mp3 and are now downloadable direct from this site
February 2013
Added potted biography "Career so far"
Re-arranged content of Home page and main menu
Profile of Angus Campbell
Details of the European Quality of Life Surveys (EQLS)
January 2013
Video clip (converted from recently discovered Super-8 reels) of garden reception for Prof Angus Campbell to meet staff of newly establish Survey Research Unit
December 2012
Link to Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) Essex University
November 2012
Life in France:
Video clip and slideshow for visit of 2nd US Armored Division veterans
(65th anniversary tour for D-Day and Battle of Normandy, 2 September 2009)
Video clip and slideshow for National Pedal-car championships 2012.
Major re-organisation of the pages for Subjective Social Indicators and addition of new material on methodology. measurement and instruments.
New Google internal site search application
October 2012
Updated information on British Social Attitudes series: links to the the Economic and Social Data Service
for SPSS saved files and associated documentation are on British Social Attitudes 1983 onwards.
Added link to Andy Field's Statistics Hell site.
Modified text-book pages to give pop-ups.
September 2012
The Mark Abrams audio files are now hosted by www.calbregroup.us
June 2012
Powermutt: a complete undergraduate course in research methods for political science and related disciplines, using SPSS. (Prof John Korey, CSU Pomona)
Account of a young Jewish refugee's stay in our village in 1944. (Life in France)
Report by Mark Abrams' BBC propaganda unit:
Analysis of Hitler's Speech on 26th April 1942 [Marked Secret]
(Report by JTW, dated 10 June 1942)
April 2012
Transcript and audio files of a 1984 interview with Mark Abrams, also copies of, or links to, winning and short-listed entries for the Mark Abrams Prize
March 2012
New page Survey Research Pantheon devoted to the great and the good of survey research whom I knew and worked with.
1: Mark Abrams
2: Cathie Marsh
New tutorials working through multiple response questions
3.3.3.1 Analysing multiple response exercise 1 - One field per code
Deals with a question on qualifications obtained by education and/or training. There is a list of 15 qualifications (coded from 01 to 15) each of which has been allocated its own fixed 2-column field: the tutorial demonstrates how to read in the raw data, specify a group variable for qualifications obtained and produce a grouped frequency table.
3.3.3.2 Analysing multiple response exercise 2 - More values than fields
Deals with a question on whether the respondent is prejudiced against people of other races and, if so, which races. There are 13 possible code values, but only 3 fields allocated.
January 2012
New entries on SPSS textbooks (Babbie et al., Pollock, plus on-line book by Levesque & SPSS Inc.
New page on Mark Abrams
Two short articles by Mark Abrams
Social Indicators and Social Equity 1972
and This Britain 1: A Contented Nation? 1974
Link to OECD report by Mark Abrams and John Hall 1972
Life Satisfaction of the British People: October - November 1971
November 2011
Added short article by Sarah Abrams on the Trinians survey (1973)
Split 2.3 Data Transformations into separate pages and added a detailed index to the section
September/October 2011
Major new exercise on conditional frequencies.
2.3.1.3 Conditional frequencies exercise
2.3.1.4 Specimen answers for exercise 2.3.1.3 (Conditional frequencies)
New links to SPSS tutorials from datastep and Iowa
New link to survey methods syllabus from North Carolina State (see postgrad courses)
Revamped pages on COUNT and COMPUTE (See: 3.5.2 Teenage Attitudes)
August 2011
Converting all Block 1, 2 and 3 files to pdf and checking links are to pdf files on this site
.
July 2011
Revamping of hierarchy of files: when hovering over menu items, sub-pages are now displayed.
Updating of info and files for the Trinians survey (Attitudes and opinions of senior pupils in a girls' public school)
Revision of multiple response tutorials, now uploaded in pdf format.
SPSS Essentials for Social Statistics by Quincy Edwards, (Univ of Hawaii)
Set of 19 step-by-step slide-shows (SPSS 15/16 ) no commentary, but self-explanatory) for
students in sociology and related subjects.
SPSS Textbooks and Survey Methods Textbooks pages have been split into sub-pages if there are reviews or detailed comments of particular books
June 2011
New book added to Survey Methods Textbooks. My short review of Handbook of Survey Research
(Peter V Marsden & James D Wright [Eds], Emerald, 2010) also has hyperlinks to Publisher’s book details (EmeraldInsight) Preview pages (on Google books) Interview with Editors and to Contributor profiles (a separate page I have created for profiles of the 46 authors.). Definitely worth a look (and get your institution to buy).
May 2011
New books added to SPSS textbooks
1: Adventures in Social Research: Data Analysis Using SPSS 11.0/11.5 for Windows
(Earl Babbie, Fred Halley and Jeanne Zaino, 5th edition, Sage 2003) uses SPSS11 for Windows.
See review by Gill Gillespie.(Northumbria University) The latest edition is:
2: Adventures in Social Research: Data Analysis Using IBM SPSS Statistics
(Earl Babbie, Fred S. Halley, William E Wagner and Jeanne Zaino, (7th edition, Sage 2011) Uses IBM
SPSS 18. Comprehensive coverage of the research process as well as SPSS,using data from the 2008
General Social Survey but with GUI, not syntax..