PSCI 2074

Information

Instructor

TA

Syllabus

Assignments

Resources

Readings

Further information about your textbook along with supplemental readings and the many data sources referenced by your text can be found on its CQ Press web site:

Political Science Research Methods

Chapter Links

Data Sources

Copies of required readings may be found in Norlin Library or on the Internet:

Journal Call Numbers

JSTOR Access to Selected Journals

Help is available from many sources. You can find some of these on the Social Science Data Lab web pages. These pages can be printed if you need hard copy. Use "Back" to return from Lab pages to the Class web page.

1. SPSS Basics

   http://socsci.colorado.edu/LAB/DOCS/spss.html

2. SPSS Intermediates: Recoding Data, Crosstabulation

   http://socsci.colorado.edu/LAB/DOCS/spss_med.html

3. SPSS: The Details

   Once you're in SPSS you can "ask" the program for help at any time.

4. Human Resources:

   John McIver (john.mciver@colorado.edu)

   Jeff Hayes (jahayes@sobek.colorado.edu)

Data Sources

The Social Science Data Lab (SSDL) is your primary source of poll data. (Faculty in the CU Departments of Political Science and Sociology collected some of these data. But in many instances, researchers and commercial firms far removed from Colorado collected the information in these files.)

To find the lab web pages describing our current data archives go to the following location:

http://socsci.colorado.edu/LAB/DATA/

More general data archives are found at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan. These data archives are also accessible trough the above SSDL web page. Finally, the lab web pages contain a wide variety of statistical data sources produces by university, governmental and commercial firms. These can be accessed through

http://socsci.colorado.edu/SOC/RES/data.html

DATA FILES WE"VE IDENTIFIED AS GOOD CANDIDATES FOR PAPER TOPICS.