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Introduction to survey data

Learn about how to find survey data from the UK and around the world, what you need to know about it before you can start analysing it, and how to produce simple tables and graphs for your research or reports.

  • Level: Introductory (no previous knowledge assumed)
  • Time: approx. 2-2.5 hours (you can dip in and out of the materials and return as you like)
  • Software: We use SPSS in the examples but you can do the examples in other statistical software. You can follow the module without having statistical software.
  • Dataset used: Quarterly Labour Force Survey, January-March 2015: Unrestricted Access Teaching Dataset
  • Certificate of completion available: Yes