ESDS research methods guides

ESDS research methods guides

ESDS provides a range of resources to assist teachers and students of research methods. The following guides cover research design, survey design and analysis, software for analysing data, secondary analysis of qualitative data, managing research data and consent and ethics.

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Analysing Change Over Time: A guide to ESDS resources

ESDS Qualidata teaching resource: exploring diverse interview types

ESDS Qualidata teaching resource: exploring diverse interview types (one-page guide)

Guide to accessing data and documentation at ESDS

Guide to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) Nesstar teaching datasets

Introduction to Complex Sample Design in UK Government Surveys

Introduction to Nesstar WebView Version 3.5

Introduction to Stata using the UK Labour Force Survey

Re-using qualitative data

Research methods at ESDS

Using SPSS for Windows: Exploring the Health Survey for England 2002 Teaching Dataset in SPSS

Using the ESDS web site

Weighting the Social Surveys

Working with survey files: using hierarchical data, matching files and pooling data

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