SOCPSY 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Codebook, List Of Statistical Packages, Univariate

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 2K03
• Professor: Paul Glavin

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Coding data: coding or assigning numbers to information, gender (1=m; 2=f), religious affiliation (1=roman catholic, 2=evangelical protestant, 3= liberal. Protestant, 4=mormon, 5=muslim, etc. : job insecurity (1= not at all likely ; 2= somewhat likely ; 3= very likely , often coding schemes are already established for open-ended responses (statistics. Canada, for example, has the national occupational classification for statistics): e. g. professional and managerial occupations, clerical occupations, semiskilled occupations etc. Quantifying data: codebook construction, 2 essential functions of a codebook, the codebook is the primary guide used in the coding process, the codebook is your guide for locating variables and interpreting codes in your data file during analysis. If the number 7 is entered, this will be an error and has to be changed. American, and 100 were scottish is an example of a frequency distribution. If the ages of five men were 16, 17, 20, 54, and 88, the median=20: mode: the most frequently observed value or attribute.