Adventures in social research : data analysis using SPSS for Windows /

Adventures in social research : data analysis using SPSS for Windows /

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Author / Creator:Babbie, Earl R.
Imprint:Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, c1995.
Description:xiv, 346 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. + 1 computer disk (3 1/2 in.)
Language:English
Subject:
SPSS for Windows.
SPSS for Windows.
Social sciences -- Statistical methods -- Computer programs.
Social sciences -- Statistical methods -- Computer programs.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1815591
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Other authors / contributors:Halley, Fred.
ISBN:0803990553 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]) and index.
System requirements for accompanying computer disk: IBM PC, IBM PS/2 or IBM compatible with at least 4MB of random access memory and 21MB of free hard disk space; SPSS for Windows release 6.0.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part I. Preparing for Social Research
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Overview
  • Why Use a Computer?
  • Conclusion
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • Review Questions
  • Chapter 2. The Theory and Process of Social Research
  • Theories and Concepts: Deprivation Theory
  • Hypotheses and Variables: Religiosity
  • Social Resrach Strategies: Inductive and Deductive
  • Political Orientations
  • Attitudes Toward Abortion
  • Conclusion
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • Review Questions
  • Chapter 3. The Logic of Measurement
  • Validity Problems
  • Reliability Problems
  • Validity and Reliability
  • Multiple Indicators
  • Levels of Measurement
  • Measurement and Information
  • Measurement Options
  • Classifying Variables as Discrete or Continuous
  • Conclustion
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • Review Questions
  • Part II. Getting Started
  • Chapter 4. Description of Your Data Sets
  • Sampling
  • Data Collection
  • The Codebook: Appendix A
  • Subsample 1. Demo.Sav
  • Subsample 2. Exer.Sav
  • Conclusion
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • Review Questions
  • Chapter 5. Using SPSS
  • Demonstration 5.1. Starting an SPSS Session
  • Demonstration 5.2. Becoming Aquainted with the SPSS Data Editor
  • Demonstration 5.3. Data View Portion of the Data Editor - Menu bar
  • Demonstration 5.4. Getting Help
  • Demonstration 5.5. Tool Bar
  • Demonstration 5.6. Dialog Boxes
  • Demonstration 5.7. Scroll Bars - Moving Through the Data Editor
  • Demonstration 5.8. Entering Data - A Preview
  • Demonstration 5.9. Loading a Data Set
  • Demonstration 5.10. Raw Data in Data View - Respondents and Columns
  • Demonstration 5.11. Finding Variable Information - Values and Labels
  • Demonstration 5.12. Variable View Tab
  • Demonstration 5.13. Windows Options - Minimizing and Reducing
  • Demonstration 5.14. Ending Your SPSS Session
  • Conclusion
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • SPSS Commands Introduced in This Chapter
  • Review Questions
  • SPSS Lab Exercise 5.1
  • Part III. Univariate Analysis
  • Chapter 6. Describing Your Data: Religiosity
  • Demonstration 6.1. Opening a Frequently Used Data File
  • Demonstration 6.2. Setting Options: Variable Lists and Output Labels
  • Demonstration 6.3. Frequency Distributions
  • The SPSS Viewer - Output
  • Navigating Through the Viewer
  • Reading Frequency Distributions
  • Demonstration 6.4. Frequency Distributions: Running Two or More Variables at One Time
  • Descriptive Statistics - Basic Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion
  • Demonstration 6.5. The Frequencies Procedure
  • Demonstration 6.6. The Descriptives Procedure - Calculating Descriptive Statistics for Continuous Variables
  • Demonstration 6.7. Modifying Variables With Recode
  • Demonstration 6.8. Recoding AGE - Example 2
  • Demonstration 6.9. Printing Your Output - Viewer
  • Demonstration 6.10. Adding Headers and Footers
  • Demonstration 6.11. Saving Your Output (Viewer)
  • Demonstration 6.12. Saving Changes to Your Data Set
  • Conclusion
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • SPSS Commands Introduced in This Chapter
  • Review Questions
  • SPSS Lab Excercise 6.1
  • Chapter 7. Presenting Your Data in Graphic Form: Political Orientations
  • Demonstration 7.1. Frequency Table - POLVIEWS
  • Demonstration 7.2. Bar Chart - POLVIEWS
  • Demonstration 7.3. SPSS Chart Editor
  • Demonstration 7.4. Recoding POLVIEWS- POLREC
  • Demonstration 7.5. Bar Chart - POLREC
  • Demonstration 7.6. Frequency Table - PARTYID
  • Demonstration 7.7. Pie Chart
  • Demonstration 7.8. Recoding PARTYID - PARTY
  • Demonstration 7.9. Pie Chart - PARTY
  • Demonstration 7.10. Histogram - AGE
  • Demonstration 7.11. Line Chart - INCOME98
  • Some Guidelines for Choosing a Chart or Graph
  • Saving and Printing Your Charts
  • Saving Your Recoded Variables
  • Conclusion
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • SPSS Commands Introduced in This Chapter
  • Review Questions
  • SPSS Lab Exercise 7.1
  • Chapter 8. Exploring Attitudes Towards Abortion With Frequencies and Crosstabs
  • Demonstration 8.1. Identifying the Seven Abortion Variables - File Info
  • Demonstration 8.2. Running Frequencies for Several Variables at Once
  • Demonstration 8.3. Producing Crosstabs
  • Conclusion
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • SPSS Commands Introduced in This Chapter
  • Review Questions
  • SPSS Lab Exercise 8.1
  • Chapter 9. Creating Composite Measures: Exploring Attitudes Toward Abortion in More Depth
  • Index - A Form of Composite Measure
  • ABORT Index
  • ABORT Index Scores
  • Demonstration 9.1. ABORT Index
  • Demonstration 9.2. Defining ABORT
  • Demonstration 9.3. Checking New Index - Comparing Scores on Old and New Variables
  • Demonstration 9.4. Running Frequencies for ABORT
  • Demonstration 9.5. Validating ABORT
  • ABINDEX - Index Based on Six Abortion Variables
  • Demonstration 9.6. ABINDEX
  • Demonstration 9.7. Running Frequencies
  • Demonstration 9.8. Validating ABINDEX
  • Conclusion
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • SPSS Commands Introduced in This Chapter
  • Review Questions
  • SPSS Lab Exercise 9.1
  • Chapter 10. Suggestions for Further Analysis
  • Desired Family Size
  • Demonstration 10.1. Respondents' Ideal Family Size (CHLDIDEL)
  • Child Training
  • Demonstration 10.2. Important Qualities for Children
  • Attitudes About Sexual Behavior
  • Demonstration 10.3. Index of Sexual Permissiveness
  • Prejudice
  • Conclusion
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • SPSS Commands Introduced in This Chapter
  • Review Questions
  • SPSS Lab Exercise 10.1
  • Part IV. Bivariate Analysis
  • Chapter 11. Examining the Sources of Religiosity
  • The Deprivation Theory of Religiosity
  • Testing Our Hypothesis Correlating Religiosity and Gender
  • Demonstration 11.1. Running Crosstabs to Test Our Hypothesis
  • Interpreting Crosstabs
  • Interpreting Crosstabs: Association, Strength, Direction
  • Demonstration 11.2. Interpreting a Crosstab with Limited Categories
  • Demonstration 11.3. Correlating Another Measure of Religiosity and Gender
  • Writing Box 11.1
  • Drawing Conclusions Carefully: Reassessing Our Original Hypothesis
  • Demonstration 11.4. Interpreting A Crosstab With Ordinal Variables - Religiosity and Age
  • Demonstration 11.5. Correlatin Other Measures of Religiosity and Age
  • Epsilon
  • Conclusion
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • SPSS Commands Introduced in This Chapter
  • Review Questions
  • SPSS Lab Exercise 11.1
  • Chapter 12. Political Orentations as Cause and as Effect
  • The Relationship Between Polviews and Partyid
  • Demonstration 12.1. Polrec by Party
  • Demonstration 12.2. Party by Polrec
  • Age and Politics
  • Demonstration 12.3. Polrec and Agecat
  • Demonstration 12.4. Party by Agecat
  • Religion and Politics
  • Demonstration 12.5
  • Demonstration 12.6
  • Gender and Politics
  • Demonstration 12.7. PARTY and POLREC by SEX
  • Race and Politics
  • Demonstration 12.8. POLREC by RACE
  • Demonstration 12.9. PARTY by RACE
  • Education and Politics
  • Demonstration 12.10. Recoding EDUC - EDCAT
  • Demonstration 12.11. POLREC by EDCAT
  • Demonstration 12.12. Party by EDCAT
  • Some Surprises - Class, Marital Status, and Politics
  • Social Class
  • Marital Status
  • The Impact of Party and Political Philosophy
  • Conclusion
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • SPSS Commands Introduced in This Chapter
  • Review Questions
  • SPSS Lab Exercise 12.1
  • Chapter 13. What Causes Different Attitudes Toward Abortion?
  • Demonstration 13.1. Gender and Abortion
  • Demonstration 13.2. Age and Abortion
  • Demonstration 13.3. Religion and Abortion
  • Writing Box 13.1.
  • Demonstration 13.4
  • Writing Box 13.2.
  • Demonstration 13.5. Sexual Attitudes and Abortion
  • Other Factors You Can Explore on Your Own
  • Conclusion
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • SPSS Commands Introduced in This Chapter
  • Review Questions
  • SPSS Lab Exercise 13.1.
  • Chapter 14. Measures of Association
  • The Logic of Statistical Association: Proportionate Reduction of Error (PRE)
  • Lambda: A Measure Appropriate for Nominal Variables
  • Gamma: A Measure Appropriate for Ordinal Variables
  • Pearson's r: A Measure Appropriate for I/R Variables
  • Demonstration 14.7. Requesting Several Correlation Coefficients
  • Regression
  • Additional Measures of Association
  • Analyzing the Association Between Variables at Different Levels of Measurement
  • Conclusion
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • SPSS Commands Introduced in This Chapter
  • Review Questions
  • SPSS Lab Exercise 14.1
  • Chapter 15. Tests of Significance
  • Statistical Significance
  • Significance Tests: Part of the Larger Body of Inferential Statistics
  • Statistical Significance Versus Measures of Association
  • Chi-Square
  • Significance and Association
  • Tests
  • Analysis of Variance
  • A Statistical Toolbox: A Summary
  • Conclusion
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • SPSS Commands Introduced in This Chapter
  • Review Questions
  • SPSS Lab Exercise 15.1
  • Chapter 16. Suggestions for Further Bivariate Analyses
  • Demonstration 16.1. Desired Family Size
  • Child Training
  • Attitudes About Sexual Behavior
  • Prejudice
  • Additional Resources
  • Conclusions
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • SPSS Commands Introduced in This Chapter
  • SPSS Lab Exercise 16.1
  • Part V. Multivariate Analysis
  • Chapter 17. Multiple Causation: Examining Religiosity in Greater Depth
  • Multiple Causation
  • Chi-square and Measure of Association
  • Multiple Regression
  • Conclusion
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • SPSS Commands Introduced in This Chapter
  • SPSS Lab Exercise 17.1
  • Chapter 18. Dissecting the Political Factor
  • Political Philosophy and Party Identification
  • Demonstration 18.1. Controlling for Education
  • Demonstration 18.2. The Mystery of Politics and Marital Status
  • Political Issues
  • Conclusion
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • SPSS Commands Introduced in This Chapter
  • Review Questions
  • SPSS Lab Exercise 18.1
  • Chapter 19. A Powerful Prediction of Attitudes Toward Abortion
  • Religion and Abortion
  • Demonstration 19.1. Religious Affiliation and Church Attendance
  • Demonstration 19.2. Religious Affiliation, Church Attendance, and Abortion
  • Politics (POLREC and PARTY) and Abortion (ABORT)
  • Demonstration 19.3. The Interaction of Religion and Politics on Abortion Attitudes
  • Demonstration 19.4. Constructing an Index of Ideological Traditionalism
  • Sexual Attitudes and Abortion
  • Demonstration 19.5. Recode PREMARSX and HOMOSEX
  • Demonstration 19.6. The Relationship Between Sexual Permissiveness and IND
  • Demonstration 19.7. Exploring the Relationship Further
  • Conclusion
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • SPSS Commands Introduced in This Chapter
  • Review Questions
  • SPSS Lab Exercises 19.1
  • Chapter 20. Suggestions for Further Multivariate Analysis
  • Ideal Family Size and Abortion
  • Child Training
  • The Protestant Ethic
  • Prejudice
  • Demonstration 20.1. The Relationship Between RACDIF4, RACMAR, and RACPUSH
  • Demonstration 20.2. Controlling for RACE
  • Conclusion
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • SPSS Commands Introduced in This Chapter
  • Review Questions
  • SPSS Lab Exercise 20.1
  • Part VI. The Adventure Continues
  • Chapter 21. Designing and Executing Your Own Survey
  • The Social Research Process and Proposal
  • Designing and Executing Your Own Survey
  • Sample Questionnaire
  • Getting Ready for Data Analysis Using SPSS
  • Step 1. Defining Your Data
  • Step 2. Editing and Coding Your Data
  • Step 3. Entering Your Data
  • Writing a Research Report
  • Conclusion
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • SPSS Commands Introduced in This Chapter
  • Review Questions
  • SPSS Lab Exercise 21.1
  • Chapter 22. Further Opportunities for Social Research
  • The Unabridged GSS
  • Other Data Sets
  • Other Computer Programs
  • Conclusion
  • Main Points
  • Key Terms
  • SPSS Commands Introduced in This Chapter
  • Review Questions
  • Appendices
  • Appendix A. Codebook
  • Appendix B. Answers to Selected SPSS Lab Exercises
  • Appendix C. Sample Questionnaire for Class Survey
  • CD - Appendix D. The Research Report
  • CD - Appendix E. The Research Proposal
  • CD - Appendix F. SPSS Survey Tips
  • CD - Appendix G. SPSS Commands Introduced in This Book
  • CD - Appendix H. Readings
  • Index/Glossary

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