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Intro to Data for Sociology

Intro to Data for Sociology. SOC 3142D Susan Mowers Data Librarian. September 2011. Today’s Agenda. Library services : Data Services SPSS labs Data and Sociology: Survey data Data and data documentation for SOC3142D Going further? How to get data from Odesi and other data sources.

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Intro to Data for Sociology

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  1. Intro to Data for Sociology SOC 3142DSusan Mowers Data Librarian September 2011

  2. Today’s Agenda • Library services : • Data Services • SPSS labs • Data and Sociology: • Survey data • Data and data documentation for SOC3142D • Going further? How to get data from Odesi and other data sources 2

  3. Services at your Library (Research and) Data Support

  4. Forthcoming presentation! • Sociology Research – Literature reviews etc. LibrarianAlain El Hofi Appointments: aelhofi@uOttawa.ca 613-562-5800 (7186) Office : Room 2010BFSS Building Click View then Header and Footer to change this text

  5. Data Services in your Library We can … • Help you to find, access and use Statistics Canada data, etc., • Provide you with technical support relating to your data, • Also … SPSS statistical and GIS software, @ Geographic,Statistical and Government – GSG Information Centre & help to find Government information and Geographic information Services to help you 5

  6. Welcome to the GSG Centre Morisset Library on the 3rd floor (309) Find the GSG Centre! 6

  7. Computer lab provides SPSS accessMorissetLibrary on the 3rd floor (308) SPSS in the Library 7

  8. Where to get SPSS SPSS labs on campus • Montpetit Hall – 125 University, room 140 (all students, open 24/7) • Morisset Library – 65 University, room 308 (all students, hours here) • FSS Library – 120 University, room 2010 FSS, (all students, Mondays to Fridays: 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.) • Vanier Hall – 136 Jean-Jacques Lussier, rooms 2008, 2015, 2025 (Faculty of Social Sciences, open 7:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m.) 8

  9. Click View then Header and Footer to change this text Originating from … LOTS OF Data AVAILABLE FOR SOCIOLOGY !

  10. Access to Data at uOttawa Via the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) Partnership between 75 + Canadian universities / colleges & Statistics Canada. Funded and supported by your Library. All uses permitted (academic, commercial …) except cannot be redistributed outside the University of Ottawa Susan is your DLI Contact : smowers@uottawa.ca 10

  11. Research Guide for Data in this course and other courses • http://uottawa.ca.libguides.com/DataandStatistics-en 11

  12. Statistics Canada Surveys Why Statistics Canada?

  13. Not all survey data of equal quality • Statistics Canada • rigorous methodology standards in survey sampling design and data collection, and accountable: they publish methodological details for every survey, one example. • What about other data collectors? • What does their documentation say about their mandate, their research and survey methodology and who is sponsoring the data collection? • ICPSR is an archive of reputable social science survey data and publishes extensive documentation for every survey, one example. • or many other sources like civil society groups, one example 13

  14. Quiz 1 What is Statistics Canada’s most important “survey”? HINTS … • It’s “so” big, it can only happen every 5 years! • It’s obligatory 14

  15. Short Census May 2011 Access past Census questionnaires May-August 2011 Between May and August 2011, Statistics Canada conducted the National Household Survey (NHS) for the first time. This voluntary, self-administered survey was introduced as a replacement for the long census questionnaire, more widely known as Census Form 2B.

  16. Census of Population then NHS For example, from your mailbox: May 2011 … and ongoing Through August … to statistics in the media SEPTEMBER 11, 2013 The make-up of the (top-over $191,000) 1- per-cent club is overwhelmingly male, most-likely over the age of 45 and tends to work in management jobs. Canada’s top earners are also more likely to make money through investments and self-employment income . …No public-use Census microdata (only National Household Survey) 16

  17. IT ALL STARTS WITH THE QUESTIONS! 2011 Census questionnaire(short) and 2011 National Household SurveyQuestionnairee.g., family relationship … …etc..

  18. Census of Population 2011 • Portal to Census 2011 statistics: http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/index-eng.cfm • Compare Census topics Click View then Header and Footer to change this text

  19. PUMF • Unique: access to respondent-level data • Public-use microdatafile, • public-use=anonymized • Statistics Act 1970-71-72, c. 15, as am., Stats Can cannot divulge individuals’ identities • Researchers can use the data to group, analyse and manipulate the data using statistical software e.g., SPSS • Geographic areas: limited to prov/territories and fairly large subprovincial areas like health regions (all across Canada) or census metropolitan areas. • Anonymization / grouping of some responses, e.g., • Born in Morocco becomes  Born in Northern Africa • Haitian ethnic origin becomes  Other Caribbean ethnic origins

  20. Two key Statistics Canada surveysGeneral Social Survey (GSS) Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS)

  21. What is the GSS (General Social Survey)? • Annual. Established in 1985, telephone surveys from representative samples from the 10 provinces • Data collected over a 12 month period – population living in private households, in the 10 provinces • Note also, http://www.issp.org/

  22. General Social Survey Original design: repeated cycles on key social issues usually every 5 years (family, victimization, life course: work or education, time-use, social networks and identity, etc.) 2011 22

  23. Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) • Largest health survey in Canada, Over 131,000 respondents for 2009-2010 from more than approximately 140 health regions • Very detailed data on health status and health system (e.g., access/use), and correlates of health including economic, social, occupational, demographic and environmental indicators; • Statistics Canada publishes extensive CCHS statistics in various products including Health Indicators, a database of tables, maps etc. • Special CCHS topics now all included in one • Note also Health in Canada portal Professor E. Diem

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  25. Comparing data and statistics and How to access Odesi • SOC3142D Course page http://uottawa.ca.libguides.com/SOC3142D

  26. What is the difference ? Statistics : • May be computer readable. • Summaries of data, e.g., x number of 95-99 year olds in Saskatchewan in 2001 ? = 1,345 • Presentation-ready • Are often mapped (or graphed) for visual presentation Data : • Digital – computer readable • Raw data • Not presentation-ready • Require processing

  27. Statistics come from… …DATA ! Data are processed to become Statistics Person 1…2 … Status of Same-sex Couples (3), Sex (3) and Presence of Other Household Members (5) for the Same sex Couples in Private Households of Canada, Provinces and Territories, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data 27

  28. Odesi (Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure) • Lots of data: Statistics Canada, public opinion polls, other survey and related data • Lots of options: Explore data, cross-tabulate with weights and data-to-go: pick and choose variables and download ! • Odesi: Go to my “Data and Statistics” research guide 28

  29. Social Sciences Librarians at your service

  30. Thank you! Questions? alain.elhofi@uottawa.ca smowers@uottawa.ca Click View then Header and Footer to change this text

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