Analyzing Complex Survey Data

Examines ways to analyze surveys, and focuses on the problems of weights and design effects. This edition incorporates practice of analyzing complex survey data, introduces the analytic approach for categorical data analysis, reviews new software and provides an introduction to the model-based analysis that can be useful analyzing social surveys. This book examines ways to analyze complex surveys, and focuses on the problems of weights and design effects. This new edition incorporates recent practice of analyzing complex survey data, introduces the new analytic approach for categorical data analysis (logistic regression), reviews new software and provides an introduction to the model-based analysis that can be useful analyzing well-designed, relatively small-scale social surveys.