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Useful links

 

Methods

Data sets and statistical data

Methods

Missing data

SPSS White Paper on ways of handling missing data with SPSS

Working with International data sets:  Conference Workshop: International Data Resources

Sampling

A good, downloadable guide to sampling concepts and methods  http://www.fantaproject.org/downloads/pdfs/sampling.pdf

Significance testing

A useful set of articles about significance testing http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/sigtest.htm

More...

Logistic Regression

http://www.personal.ecu.edu/whiteheadj/data/logit/  A very good site with helpful exercises to work thorugh

Data sets

Data archives 

Social Science data archives

Directory of data archives

American Sociological Association Links to key data sets

 

Sites for official statistics  

http://www.abs.gov.au/ Then select the Statistics button and then select Links to other statistical sites

 OFFSTATS: Official statistics on the Web. This site provides links to official statistics by country, region or topic 
http://www2.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/stats/offstats/off1.ptml

Action Research 

 

Statistical data

Directories Directory of online statistical data. 

 

Abortion US

 

Adoption Australia
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Adoptions - Australian Bureau of Statistics

 

Ageing Australia
Our ageing population (ABS)
Australia's Older Population: Past, Present and Future (Jun, 1999)
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
United States
Housing - Housing Assistance: Home care, hostels & nursing homes
Health of older people (ABS)
Australia: Older job seekers (ABS)
Economic resources of older Australians(ABS)

 

Children Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Australian Institute of Family Studies
Children

 

Child abuse Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Child Abuse (US data at this stage)

 

Child care Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Looking after children (ABS)
Child Care ABS, Australia, 1998
Child care (only US data at this stage)
Living Arrangements: Caring for children after parents separate ( ABS)

 

Youth Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Young adults living in the parental home (ABS)

 

Mental Health Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Mental Health
Australian Bureau of Statistics

 

Health Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Health of older people (ABS)
Health & socio-economic disadvantage of area (ABS)
Health statistics

 

Demographic statistics Demography and Population Studies WWW Virtual Library (ANU)
Australian and international demography links

 

International demographic statistics  An excellent data base for comparative demographic data over time
Australian Institute of Family Studies
A century of population change in Australia (ABS)

 

Poverty and income distribution World Bank Poverty Net
Australian Institute of Family Studies
SPRC
NATSEM
World Income Inequality Database (WIID)
Australia: Lower income working families (ABS)
Poverty: different assumptions, different profiles (ABS)
Income distribution and life cycle(ABS)

 

Marriage Australia: Cultural diversity in marriage(ABS) 
Rates and Trends (ABS) Australia
Special article: Marriage and divorce in Australia, 1998
Australia: People without partners (ABS)
Australia: Unpaid Work: How couples share domestic work (ABS)
Age at first marriage (ABS)
Remarriage (ABS)

 

Families Australia: National summary tables 1989-2000 (ABS)
Australia: Family Functioning: Spending time (ABS)
One-parent families(ABS)
Households and family types (ABS)
Lone person households (ABS)

 

Divorce Living Arrangements: Caring for children after parents separate
Rates and Trends (ABS) Australia
Special article: Marriage and divorce in Australia, 1998
Fertility Family planning (ABS)
Births (ABS)
Teenage fertility (Jun, 2000) ABS
Lifetime childlessness (ABS)

 

Marriage

Australia

 

Divorce

 

Domestic violence

Domestic violence

 

Cost of rearing children

United States 

Australia  

 

Fertility

Poverty

Australia

Families (general)

Australia

Housing

Australia

Additional data sets

 

Site last updated 2 Decmeber 2003