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Analysis of the LFS using STATA
PDF, Word
An introductory user guide to the statistical package STATA, which uses the 2002 Labour Force Survey to demonstrate STATA functions.
Using SPSS for Windows
PDF, Word
SPSS for Windows is a comprehensive, interactive, general purpose package for data analysis. It covers most routine analyses and is a true Windows package: it is mouse-driven with movable, scalable windows, drop-down menus and dialog boxes.
Weighting the Social Surveys
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This document is based upon the proceedings of the Weighting the Social Surveys event held by CCSR at the Royal Statistical Society on Friday 12 March 2004.
The following spreadsheet summarises the documentation of weighting and imputation on each of the government surveys - weighting-summary.xls.
Analysing Change Over Time: A guide to ESDS resources
PDF, Word
This introductory guide gives an overview of ESDS data resources for the analysis of change over time. Its content in part represents the outcome of a one-day seminar held in October, 2006 at the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR). The aim of the guide is to introduce the reader to some of the methodological, technical and data management issues surrounding the analysis of change.
Working with survey files: using hierarchical data, matching files and pooling data
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This guide introduces the concepts of units of analysis and hierarchical data. It explains procedures in SPSS and Stata that can be used to work with datasets with different levels of hierarchy within single files, as well as how to combine files where different levels of hierarchy are stored across multiple files (i.e. a ‘database’ of data ‘tables’). Other related procedures considered include how to combine files to increase sample sizes.
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2009-10 pilot for the National Survey for Wales: Technical Report
