Doing Survey Research (U03962)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : SPS-3-SYMETRESB

This course meets the needs of students who wish to access and analyse extensive secondary data, or to create and analyse survey-type material large enough to make it sensible to use SPSS. It will be available as a stand-alone course as well as acting as the second of two compulsory courses within the junior honours year in Sociology, and in its combined honours degrees (except that with Psychology).

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Social and Political Enquiry 2 is preferable but not essential.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Sociology, (School of Social and Political Studies, Schedule J)

Other subject areas

Social Policy, (School of Social and Political Studies, Schedule J)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Monday	14:00	15:50	Central
Lecture	Thursday	14:00	15:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course candidates will have:
- a basic knowledge of research design as it relates to the selection of documentary sources, evaluation of existing data-sets, and survey research
- an understanding of and ability to use basic descriptive and inferential statistics, and the use of SPSS for bivariate and multivariate analysis.
- a basic understanding of the issues involved in drawing inferences and generalisations from samples to larger populations.
- some familiarity with the use of software packages for analysing qualitative data.