Aggregate Data: Analysis and Interpretation - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803914288 ISBN 13: 9780803914285

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1980

Synopsis

The use of aggregate data in social science research is a controversial topic. It has the advantage of not requiring time-consuming and costly original field research, relying instead on previously accumulated information from censuses, voter registrations and other sources. Yet it has been shown that the results of studies using aggregate data can be tenuous, at least on an individual level. Many of the contributions to this collection of essays first appeared in 1979 issues of Sociological Methods and Research. They focus on the nature of measurement for aggregated data and many of its possibilities and hazards.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803914288
• ISBN 13: 9780803914285
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Borgatta Edgar F., Jackson David J.