SOAN 2120 Lecture : SOAN 2120 Mar.21.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2120
• Professor: Scott Schau

Document Summary

Numerical representation and manipulation of observations for the purpose of describing and explaining the phenomena that those observations reflect. Coding in quantitative data analysis-getting the data from the subjects into a format that we can manipulate and understand. For computers to work, you must translate your data into something that they can read. Codebook-document that describes the location of variables w/in a data set and lists the codes assigned to the attributes composing those variables. [i. e. a computer doesn"t understand m & f so we say that males could be 0 and females are 1] Guide for locating variables and interpreting codes in the data fine during analysis. Data entry specialists enter the data into statistical software of excel spreadsheet. Sometimes it"s part of the process of data collection. Codes which have not been assigned to the attributes of a variable are removed.