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Recent additions and modifications
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 [too large for this site]
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 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 [too large for this site]
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..
