Adventures in social research : data analysis using SPSS 11.0/11.5 for Windows / by Earl Babbie, Fred Halley, Jeanne Zaino.
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TextPublication details: Thousand Oaks : Pine Forge Press, c2003.Edition: 5th edDescription: xxix, 514 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)ISBN: - 9780761987581 (cloth)
- 0761987584 (pbk.)
- 519.50285536 BAB
- HA32 .B285 2003
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Previous ed.: 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART 1: PREPARING FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH:-1. Introduction--2. The Theory and process of social research--3. The logic of measurement--PART 11: GETTING STARTED:- 4. Description of your datasets--5. Using SPSS--PART 111: UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS:- 6. Describing your data: Religiosity--7. Presenting your data in Graphic Form: Political Orientations--8. Exploring attitudes toward abortion with frequencies and crosstabs--9. Creating composite measures: Exploring attitudes toward abortion in more depth--10. Suggestions for further analysis--PART IV: BIVARIATE ANALYSIS:- 11. Examining the sources of Reliigioosity--12. Political Orientations as cause and as effect--13. What causes different attitudes towards abortion?--14. Measures of association--15. Tests of Significance--16. Suggestions for further Bivariate analyses--PART V: MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS:- 17. Multiple Causation: Examining Religiosity in Greater Depth--18. Dissecting the political factor--19. A powerful prediction of attitudes toward abortion--20. Suggestions for further multivariate analyses--PART VI: THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES:- 21. Designing and executing your own survey--22. Further opportunities for social research.