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Computer-Assisted Survey (UC-Berkeley)

URL: http://sda.berkeley.edu/
  • Data sets from the 1972-94 General Social Survey, 1972-96 National Election Survey, and 1991 National Health Interview Survey
  • Data may be manipulated on-line
  • Quick start instructions for the initiate:
    • Choose Demonstration Survey Data Archive
    • Choose the survey you would like and the "browse" option; start
    • Choose "Alphabetical Variable List"
    • Choose your variables and write down their corresponding code names
    • Go back to the original screen and choose "run crosstabulations;" start
      • Imagine the output as a spreadsheet and type in the desired vertical and horizontal code names; also choose output as statistics or percentages
    • Examples:
      • General Social Survey
        • Percentage of Protestants who strongly agree with death penalty
        • In "run crosstabulations," type in "deathpen" as vertical and "relig" as horizontal; check off percentaging as vertical; run the table
      • American National Election Studies
      • National Health Interview Survey
        • Choose Alphabetical List to determine birthyr is code for birthyear and hep12 is number of short-term hospital stays in last twelve months
        • Click on run crosstabulations
        • Use hep12 as hortizonal, birthyr as vertical, click on statistics and run percentages
        • Result is number and percent of people born 1880-1992, by individual year, who had none, one, two or more hospital stays
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