Questionnaire and dataset

	This simple longitudinal data set is provided to help you practice your SPSS/computer data analysis skills. Use this file in conjunction with Excel, SPSS and other compatible software, and begin to get to grips with statistical data analysis. You can also download a user guide for SPSS here

	This real-life questionnaire used in a recent academic research project, gives you one example of a social research questionnaire. The questionnaire was completed by 26 second year under graduates last year (2009). Use this example to practice your question-building skills, and start thinking about how you would analyse some of the possible, answers to these questions. Select the relevant link below to view the results in your chosen format: Excel SPSS - Please note: to view the results in SPSS, you will need to save the SPSS (.sav) file onto a computer which has SPSS loaded. You can also download a user guide for SPSS here. Some questions you may like to explore about the survey results are: What is the profile of the class of students in terms of type of school, age, gender, partnership status and having dependent children? What is the distribution of average marks of the class of students? Is there a relationship between the parents' level of education and the average marks of the student? Is there a relationship between the hours studied/hours in paid work and the average mark?
A prime example of a popular online data collection tool, Survey Monkey offers simple tutorials in survey building and questionnaire design. Go to the web site and start to explore some of the possibilities. Please note this link will take you to an external site.

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Many organisations undertake social research â€“ these hyperlinks take you to some of the most significant and widely-recognised research organisations. Explore their sites and the data they present, for a broader view of how social research, and research methods, are applied in the real world.
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ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts)
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts on the Web is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional.
British Sociological Association
The British Sociological Association promotes sociology, supports sociologists, and is the public face of sociology in Britain. This website combines academic, professional and practical information about social research.
CSAC Ethnographics Gallery
The Ethnographics Gallery is a publication of the Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing. This site contains reports on CSAC research, Teaching materials, and Resources that can be used for planning and executing research, including bibliographic materials, databases of ethnographic material, fieldnotes, descriptors, and software for working with ethnographic data.
Economic & Social Research Council
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funds research and training in social and economic issues. This site includes details of research, reports and ongoing projects in the social sciences, as well as a host of links to other relevant sites.
ESDS Qualidata (qualitative datasets)
ESDS Qualidata is a specialist service of the ESDS led by the UK Data Archive (UKDA) at the University of Essex. The service provides access and support for a range of social science qualitative datasets, promoting and facilitating increased and more effective use of data in research, learning and teaching.
Eurostat (EU statistics)
Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union situated in Luxembourg. Its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions. International statistics are a way of getting to know your neighbours in Member States and countries outside the EU. They are an important, objective and down-to-earth way of measuring how we all live.
Intute (social sciences gateway)
Intute is a free online service that helps you to find the best web resources for your studies and research. This site can also help you develop your Internet research skills through Virtual Training Suite tutorials, written by lecturers and librarians from universities across the UK.
NVivo
NVivo software is widely used among researchers who need to analyse qualitative data. This website gives you information about the latest version of NVivo, and contains case studies from students and academics who have used the software in their own projects.
OECD statistics
The OECD provides a setting where governments compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice and coordinate domestic and international policies. The Statistics Portal contains data, stats, visualisations and links to methodology and tools to help you in your understanding and use of statistics.
Office for National Statistics
The Office for National Statistics produces independent information to improve understanding of the UK's economy and society. Find out more about the producers and users of statistics, statistical standards and procedures, quality assurance and best practice, and consultation and development programmes.
Royal College of Nursing
The RCN is a significant authority on the ethics of research, particularly regarding protection of vulnerable groups. Find out more about professional ethics through the Ethics community link.
Social Policy Association
The SPA promotes the study of social policy and advances the role of social policy research within policy making, practice and wider public debates. It is a professional association which links academics who teach and research in higher education, postgraduate researchers, policy makers and others.
Social Research Association
The SRA provides a forum for people working in a diverse range of settings and in different subject specialities, to form wider contacts, exchange views and information, and pursue issues of common concern.
Social Science Research Council
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is an independent nonprofit organization devoted to the advancement of social science research and scholarship. Founded in New York City in 1923 as the worldâ€™s first national coordinating body of the social sciences, it is today an international resource for interdisciplinary, innovative public social science.
SPSS
SPSS, an IBM Company, is a leading global provider of quantitative data analysis software.
UK Data Archive (Mostly quantitative datasets)
The UK Data Archive (UKDA) is a centre of expertise in data acquisition, preservation, dissemination and promotion and is curator of the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the UK. Among its family of services are the Economic and Social Data Service, History Data Service, UK Census portal, Rural Economy and Land Use Programme Data Support Service, Secure Data Service, Survey Resources Network, and Survey Question Bank.
UK National Digital Archive of datasets
The National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD) preserves and provides online access to archived digital datasets and documents from UK central government departments.

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