Understanding Social Statistics

Designed to help take the fear out of the use of numbers in social research, this textbook introduces students to statistics as a powerful means of revealing patterns in human behaviour. This fully revised, expanded and updated second edition covers everything typically included in an introductory course on social statistics for students in the social sciences. It now includes: sections on developing a coding frame, additional discussion of weighting counts as a means of analyzing published statistics; enhanced design to aid navigation which is further simplified by the addition of core objectives for each chapter and bullet-pointed chapter summaries; and updated examples and SPSS coverage demonstrating the latest social statistics datasets.