Survey Research Datasets and R
2020-12-01
Preface
This book accompanies the “Survey Research Datasets and R” workshop delivered for the 7th Biennial ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference. Many thanks to ACSPRI for having us, and to the workshop attendees for participating.
The R packages covered in this book are the result of uncountable hours of hard work by the R community, and all are freely available and released under open source licenses. The work we do would not be possible without them!
License
This work, as a whole, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Datasets
We chose to use a real life survey dataset for demonstration purposes. The majority of examples throughout use data from NORC at the University of Chicago’s 2018 General Society Survey.1
The online data examples use publicly available data from the Tidy Tuesday project, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the Queensland Government.
A very heartfelt thankyou to the people and organisations advocating for open data release and doing the work to make this data publicly available.
Smith, Tom W, Peter Marsden, Michael Hout, and Jibum Kim. General Social Surveys, 1972-2014↩︎