Social Sciences Data and Government Information Feedback Survey, October 2005 [United States] / Thomas Stieve, Edward Chu.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Stieve, Thomas.

Chu, Edward.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 4375.

ICPSR ; 4375

Language:

English

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

The purpose of this data collection is to assess the needs of Brown University students, faculty, and staff regarding researching and analyzing numeric and spatial data, and government information (documents) in the social sciences fields, as well as how the social sciences data resources librarian can improve its services in assisting in studies and research. The data were collected via an online survey posted through a listserver to the entire Brown University community. Respondents were asked to give their opinions about learning different statistical packages such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata, as well as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. Other questions involved respondents' interest in using different information sources such as government statistics, state information and international information.

Contents:

Part 1: Main Data; Part 2: Interview Data

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2008-01-04.

OCLC:

190871637

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.