Understanding Social Statistics Book

Designed to help take the fear out of the essential use of numbers in social research, this textbook is an invaluable introduction to statistics and data analysis for students across the social sciences. An accessible guide to quantitative methods, it provides:· Concise explanations of what is needed to understand the methods· Comprehensive coverage of analytic tools including graphical techniques and exploratory data analysis, as well as the classic methods of social statistics, such as cross-tabulation, measures of association, and regression· An introduction to SPSS (Version 9), the most widely used statistical analysis program, presented in a series of screenshots to help the user get to grips with it· Examples based on real datasets - the UK General Household Survey and the World Bank's Social Indicators of Development - focusing on gender issues. The data for the examples are available on the Internet, enabling students to carry out further analyses· Chapter summaries and exercises at the end of each chapterThe book was written to introduce statistics as a powerful means of revealing patterns in human behaviour. Understanding Social Statistics is an essential textbook for courses on statistics and quantitative research across the social sciences.Read More