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Social Science Data Bases. Humboldt State University May 6, 2011. Sponsors. and the http://www.ssric.org. College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences http://www.humboldt.edu/cahss /. Presenters. Stephanie Burkhalter , Politics, Humboldt State University
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Social ScienceData Bases Humboldt State University May 6, 2011 www.ssric.org
Sponsors and the http://www.ssric.org College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences http://www.humboldt.edu/cahss/ www.ssric.org
Presenters Stephanie Burkhalter, Politics, Humboldt State University Stephanie.Burkhalter@humboldt.edu John L. Korey, Political Science, Cal Poly Pomona jlkorey@csupomona.edu Josh Meisel, Sociology, Humboldt State University meisel@humboldt.edu www.ssric.org
The Council Oldest CSU affinity group (since 1972) Representatives from CSU campuses meet three times per year Negotiates with data providers for access to data Promotes use of data analysis in research and teaching www.ssric.org
The Council Annual student research conference April 29, San Jose Statehttp://www.ssric.org/participate/src Sponsors travel to ICPSR summer workshops in Ann Arbor, Michigan http://www.ssric.org/participate/icpsr_summer Field Poll Faculty Fellowship (deadline April 15) http://www.ssric.org/participate/field_institute www.ssric.org
SSRIChttp://www.ssric.org www.ssric.org
Workshop Agenda Overview of the SSRIC Data Archives ICPSR Field Roper Teaching with Data Brainstorming Your Ideas Other Data Your Feedback www.ssric.org
Social Science Databases The California State University subscribes to social science databases to support teaching research administration Available to campuses by annual subscription www.ssric.org
Social Science Databases Assistance from the SSRIC Note: SSRIC members are not staff data consultants or technical assistance providers, but we will do what we can to help students, faculty, and staff to access data Campus representativeshttp://www.ssric.org/reps www.ssric.org
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Field Poll Census Data Roper Center for Public Opinion Research Social Science Databases www.ssric.org
Accessing the data bases On-campus access to data bases is IP authenticated Off-campus access Field: not available Roper: uses library as proxy server -- works just like other library data bases ICPSR: first time, uses library proxy server, after that, you can access from anywhere but you must reauthenticate every 6 months www.ssric.org
ICPSR http://www.icpsr.org Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research www.ssric.org
ICPSR Primary social science data archive for the U.S. Founded in 1962; CSU joined in 1972 Over 600 member institutions worldwide Services Vast data archive accessible via the web (ICPSR Direct) Summer program Instructional resources www.ssric.org
ICPSR Teaching www.ssric.org
ICPSR www.ssric.org
ICPSR www.ssric.org
Using ICPSR Direct Locate the study Select the data for download Download the data Import the data for statistical analysis www.ssric.org
Find and Analyze Data Find data Analyze data online Topical archives www.ssric.org
Searching for Data • Type in key words • (e.g., gun control) • Click search Search terms are not case sensitive if all lower case www.ssric.org
Search Results Sort by time period (newest) Click on link www.ssric.org
Downloading the data View study description Download all files www.ssric.org
Agree to the Terms of Use www.ssric.org
Saving the Files www.ssric.org
Select Files and Place Them Where You Want to Save Them www.ssric.org
What’s in the File? Look in the layers of subfolders until you find the DS0001 folder It will include the: Codebook (pdf file) Questionnaire (pdf file) SPSS file (in this case, it’s a .sav file) Other files www.ssric.org
Open the sav File in SPSS www.ssric.org
Explore ICPSR www.ssric.org
The Field Poll www.ssric.org
The Field (California) Poll Established in 1947 Independent, non-partisan survey of California public opinion Wide range of political and social topics Multiple polls each year Mervin Field http://www.field.com www.ssric.org
Accessing Field Data Set up your browser Find polls and data sets Download data sets www.ssric.org
Setting up your browser Requires setting passive FTP access Can set up browser for folder view or FTP directory view See the instructions for details: http://www.ssric.org/data/field_polls You will only need to do this once for your browser and user account www.ssric.org
Finding Polls Find the poll number Field Poll Archives (http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/) American Public Opinion Index Check with your library for printed and/or microfiche versions The CALPOLL window Accessible via UCData You will be using the poll number to select the data set for download. www.ssric.org
Searching Polls with UCDATA Uses SDA Does not include last couple of years Gives you the frequency distributions of the variables you select www.ssric.org
UC Datahttp://ucdata.berkeley.edu Click on Field Polls www.ssric.org
Field Polls on UCDATA Click on search www.ssric.org
Searching I selected 2000’s www.ssric.org
Keywords Enter gun control www.ssric.org
Search Results Click View www.ssric.org
Results from SDA www.ssric.org
Downloading the Data Click Download www.ssric.org
Choosing the File Double click cal0003 since you want to download that folder Note that this is directory view www.ssric.org
Saving the Files www.ssric.org
Select the Folder www.ssric.org
Open the Data in SPSS 2 1 www.ssric.org
Other Field Resources SSRIC Field Poll Guide Field News Releases and California Opinion Indexes www.ssric.org
Explore Field www.ssric.org
10 MINUTE BREAK! www.ssric.org
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research www.ssric.org
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu Roper Express iPoll RoperExplorer www.ssric.org
Searching for Data Sets Hover overQuick Links Then click “Search for Datasets” www.ssric.org