Political Science 138
Quantitative Reasoning   

 

HW10:

International Social Survey Programme (ISSP)   <register here: for project description enter Dr. Klass's course>

 (contains cross national surveys  on Environment, citizenship, religion:) after registering, select

  • ISSP 2000 data analysis and download via ZACAT
  • then select ISSP and module topic
  • expand menu to get variable description
  • use the ID variable "country" (right click on it and add to row)
  • select substantive variables
  • percentage across the rows.

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    In-class:

    Prepare a chart similar to this:


     

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    Step one: International Social Survey Programme (ISSP); choose Archive and data ;

    Step two: Select survey (e.g. Religion II);  choose: Full online access to ISSP 1998 via ZACAT (reg. required)
    Step Three:  Choose Variable Description: Archive and ID variable and substantive variable
           on the right hand screen, choose Table.

     

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    Step Four: specify country codes for the row variable
       (click on v3: Country; select add to rows (login if requested)

    Step Five : specify a substantial variable for the columns.
       (click on the variable; select add to columns)

        [note after clicking on the variable, you may have
                   to scroll up for the add-to box]

    Step Six: Select row percentages in the Type box.

    Step Six: Save the results as an Excel file:

         (click on the Excel button in the upper right hand corner).

          [Note the Excel file may be saved with the name Velocity -- with no file extension:
            to convert the file name so Excel will open it, rename the file with a .xls extension,
            e.g.: Velocity.xls, or Hello.xls ]

    Step Seven: Open the file in Excel, construct the chart.

           [Note you may want to add columns together, in the example above, the "definitely"
            and probably columns]