SOAN 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter ch 4-9: Sampling Frame, Nonverbal Communication, Descriptive Statistics

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2120
• Professor: David Walters

Document Summary

Chapter #4, analysis of quantitative data, page 62-88. Researchers (r) develop rules to assign numbers to variable attributes (1=single people, 2=married people, 3=common law people, 4=divorced people, etc. ) Each category of a variable and missing information need a code. Codebook: a document that describes the procedure for coding variables and their location in a format for computers. R begin to think about a coding procedure and codebook before they collect data. Precoding: means placing the code categories (1=man, 2=woman, In the grid, each row represents a respondent, subject or case. A column or a set of columns represents specific variables. It is possible to go from a column and row location (row 7, column 5) back to the original source of data: 1 row= 1 student. And the columns represent how many questions were asked: there are four ways to get raw quantitative data into a computer.