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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

Cost of rearing children

United States