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Spring 2012 Courses
SOCL 319, The Study of Population
Syllabus (calendar may be adjusted after the first exam)
Readings guide for the first exam
Lecture slides
for first exam
Readings guide for second exam
Lecture slides for fertility
Lecture slides for mortality, life tables, & age-sex structure
First (small) outside assignment (using newspaper obituaries to
estimate average length of life)
Second outside assignment (country comparisons)
Online sources of international demographic information
2011 World
Population Data Sheet (free pdf download from the Population Reference
Bureau)
U.S.
publication: Births, Final Report, 2009
U.S.
Publication: Life Tables, 2007
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SOCL 516, Social Research II: Methods
Syllabus (calendar may be adjusted after the first exam)
Link to the CITI test: http://www2.winthrop.edu/spar/Human%20Subjects.htm
An SPSS
tutorial (hope it helps -- if not, come see me)
Some common table reporting issues
Codebook for the Winthrop Spring 2011 student survey data set (we will closely check this for any errors)
Material for the first exam:
Readings guide for the first exam
Full
lecture slides for the first exam
IMPORTANT:
Here is a link to the General Social Survey Codebook
(1972-2010). It is in pdf format and may be downloaded. We'll get to this later.
http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/data/datasets/general_social_survey.html#codebook