ONS National Well-being
Unrestricted Access Teaching Dataset
Office for Natinal Statistics (ONS) Opinions Survey, Well‐Being Module
(Teaching data set distributed by UK Data Service as SN7146: 24 variables, 1124 cases)
1: Unrestricted Access Teaching Dataset (SN 7146)
(ONS Opinions Survey, Well‐Being Module, April 2011)
Data set and user guide from the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, Manchester now renamed the Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research,
This is one of several data sets distributed by UKDS for which I have prepared detailed introductions to, and critical commentaries, on the SPSS files and documentation, and which I covered in Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind my presentation to ASSESS (SPSS users in Europe) at York in October 2014. (See: SN 7146 1 Introduction and Commentary)
This data set was originally created at the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, (now Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research) Manchester, and was intended for teaching multivariate analysis using Principal Components Analysis and Factor Analysis. This dataset contains a selection of variables from the April 2011 wave of the ONS Opinions Survey, Well-Being Module, April - August 2011 (SN 6893) which in turn is part of the regular government survey Opinions and Lifestyle Survey, run in various guises since 1990
For undergraduate teaching in sociology and related subjects, especially beginners, multivariate statistical analysis is probably too ambitious. At this level the aim should be to impart, not inferential statistics, but basic skills in data handling and analysis (using software packages such as SPSS) and be restricted to tabulation and charts, perhaps working up to some statistical testing. A different pedagogical approach, which, in my experience, beginners can more easily understand and learn, is to adopt the logic of dependent, independent and test variables, analysing first one variable, then two, then three or more, and to start with charts, %% in tabulation (and where appropriate, comparison of means) rather than multivariate modelling based on correlation matrices.
Accordingly I am currently developing learning materials based on this and other surveys which are. or will soon be, available to fellow teachers, students and researchers. The ones available so far are:
SN 7146 1 Introduction and Commentary
SN 7146 2 Notes on first encounter
SN 7146 3 Enhanced teaching file
Later ones will be work-throughs to create and analyses the enhanced data set
Office for Natinal Statistics (ONS) Opinions Survey, Well‐Being Module
(Teaching data set distributed by UK Data Service as SN7146: 24 variables, 1124 cases)
1: Unrestricted Access Teaching Dataset (SN 7146)
(ONS Opinions Survey, Well‐Being Module, April 2011)
Data set and user guide from the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, Manchester now renamed the Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research,
This is one of several data sets distributed by UKDS for which I have prepared detailed introductions to, and critical commentaries, on the SPSS files and documentation, and which I covered in Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind my presentation to ASSESS (SPSS users in Europe) at York in October 2014. (See: SN 7146 1 Introduction and Commentary)
This data set was originally created at the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, (now Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research) Manchester, and was intended for teaching multivariate analysis using Principal Components Analysis and Factor Analysis. This dataset contains a selection of variables from the April 2011 wave of the ONS Opinions Survey, Well-Being Module, April - August 2011 (SN 6893) which in turn is part of the regular government survey Opinions and Lifestyle Survey, run in various guises since 1990
For undergraduate teaching in sociology and related subjects, especially beginners, multivariate statistical analysis is probably too ambitious. At this level the aim should be to impart, not inferential statistics, but basic skills in data handling and analysis (using software packages such as SPSS) and be restricted to tabulation and charts, perhaps working up to some statistical testing. A different pedagogical approach, which, in my experience, beginners can more easily understand and learn, is to adopt the logic of dependent, independent and test variables, analysing first one variable, then two, then three or more, and to start with charts, %% in tabulation (and where appropriate, comparison of means) rather than multivariate modelling based on correlation matrices.
Accordingly I am currently developing learning materials based on this and other surveys which are. or will soon be, available to fellow teachers, students and researchers. The ones available so far are:
SN 7146 1 Introduction and Commentary
SN 7146 2 Notes on first encounter
SN 7146 3 Enhanced teaching file
Later ones will be work-throughs to create and analyses the enhanced data set