SLWK 706/707 - Research for Clinical Social Work Practice I and II

It can be surprisingly hard to find data for a specific research question. This session will introduce tools and concepts for more effective data searching, for students who are new to secondary analysis.

This session will address secondary analysis steps between operationalizing the constructs and running the analysis. We will discuss extracting a dataset, finding the data and codebook in the data package, and uploading to App2Go.

Learn how to use ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) to find real research data for secondary analysis for your course paper, thesis, article or classroom. This overview will

• Introduce you to the vast range of regional, national and international datasets, data series and thematic collections available from ICPSR.
• Demonstrate their relevance to disciplines and programs throughout the university.
• Highlight tools available for data planning, data management and data processing.
• Introduce data-driven learning guides designed to reinforce key concepts in the social sciences.

If you want a refresher on how variables relate to hypotheses, watch this. If you're good on how to build a hypothesis from variables, then skip this and try video #2 for more on searching datasets.

In this tutorial, Nina Exner, Research Data Librarian, discusses finding datasets for your research interests.

In this tutorial, Nina Exner, Research Data Librarian, introduces secondary data analysis concepts and resources.

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Slide:  Great Choices in ICPSR

In this tutorial, Nina Exner, Research Data Librarian, briefly demonstrates the process involved at the beginning of conducting secondary data analysis.