Category: quantitative methods
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Critique to sociology and related disciplines by Bastos
But the idea is that there is a kind of determinism, that there is a series of statistical data from the past that can be used to predict the future, and from those statistics, from that data, a deterministic vision is born. So, for example, everything that is forecasting, futures analysis, and things like that…
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Socio-spatial secondary data source for all over the world
In this post I want to echo this fantastic source of socio-spatial data, perfect for your GIS analysis in most of the countries all over the world The files have been created from OpenStreetMap dataand are licensed under the Open Database 1.0 License. Seewww.openstreetmap.org for details about the project. This file contains data as of…
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Socio-economic analysis with nighttime light series: downloading nighttime images
Context: we analyze economic changes in Colombian municipalities between 1993 and 2020. In this post, we focus on how to download our “raw data”, i.e. the nighttime light data for Colombia. Step 1: Download nighttime light series from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Particularly Version 4 DMSP-OLS Nighttime Lights Time Series (DMSP) –…
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Worlwide Energy Statistics from International Energy Agency
https://www.iea.org/statistics/
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Does mass media shape public opinion and dominant discourse regarding policy issues? Do press and public opinion converge over time?
“We sampled and analyzed media portrayals of the Dead Sea Water Canal from the Israel national Ha´aretz newspaper along the two time periods. We then undertook synchronic (comparative simultaneous depictions) and diachronic (historically-sensitive sequences of representations) analyses to examine these portrayals within as well as accross these periods. Ha´aretz is the oldest daily newspaper…
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Health and happiness: cross-sectional household surveys in Finland, Poland and Spain
Abstract Objective To explore the associations between health and how people evaluate and experience their lives. Methods We analysed data from nationally-representative household surveys originally conducted in 2011–2012 in Finland, Poland and Spain. These surveys provided information on 10 800 adults, for whom experienced well-being was measured using the Day Reconstruction Method and evaluative well-being was…
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“An individual’s level of personal well-being is strongly related to the level of wealth of the household in which they live”
“Relationship between Wealth, Income and Personal Well-being, July 2011 to June 2012” Summary This article uses data from the Wealth and Assets Survey (WAS) for July 2011 to June 2012 which, for the first time, included measures of personal well-being. It describes the results of regression analysis considering the relationships between the total wealth or…